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Strange! I would quite specifically highlight “having to do the reader’s thinking for them”, as well as more generally developing the skill to “communicate non-
by fwlr 1mo ago
Strange! I would quite specifically highlight “having to do the reader’s thinking for them”, as well as more generally developing the skill to “communicate non-interactively with an unknown audience”, as extremely valuable upgrades to my thinking.
- card_zero 1mo agoIt's a kind of shared fiction of an imaginary person's thinking, really. The author writes "now, I know what you must be thinking", and hopes the reader will agree "OK, close enough".
- rrr_oh_man 1mo ago> It's a kind of shared fiction of an imaginary person's thinking, really That is the best way I’ve seen anyone put into words what I feel about those types of theses
- DenisM 1mo agoMost valuable thinking is done at the margins, where you don’t have much capacity to emphasize with a diverse and unknown audience. That said, abdicating to an LLM is the worst of all worlds - you’re not thinking and the product is not tailored. The solution is obvious - write as much detail as you need and allow readers to interrogate the virtual you with an LLM, maybe not even reading what you write.