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> If you can't spend the time to write it, why should anyone read it? Because the value of writing are not the words on a piece of paper but the idea they conv
by siscia 15d ago
> If you can't spend the time to write it, why should anyone read it?
Because the value of writing are not the words on a piece of paper but the idea they convey.
Politicians speech are not worth listening too because they have a copywriter polish them?
Teacher assistant homeworks are not worth to do, because they are made by a TA and not by the course professor?
Of course there are writing as: "Hey ChatGPT write me a piece around coding with LLMs" and yeah, those are not worth reading.
But most of the writing is usually, these are the ideas, this is how the idea are structured together, now let's review them and then let's get a nice prose out of it.
- graemep 15d ago"Politicians speech are not worth listening too because they have a copywriter polish them?" It often makes them less informative and a lot less sincere.
- andrewflnr 14d agoYeah, it's phrased like a reductio ad absurdum but it's close to being literally true. It's not technically "copywriters" but their words are "polished" for pleasantness, often with the explicit guidance of consultants, until most of the truth or novelty is gone.
- Planktonne 15d ago> But most of the writing is usually, these are the ideas, this is how the idea are structured together, now let's review them and then let's get a nice prose out of it. I know lots of AI-enabled writers believe this, but I've never actually seen it be true.
- Zambyte 15d agoHow about Anthropic? I've seen people say it's surprising that their blog isn't written with AI, but I think it's far more likely that it is written with AI; they are just good at reviewing and getting a nice prose out of their models.
- RugnirViking 12d ago> let's get a nice prose out of it. what do you think this process is? why don't we just write lists of ideas to each other, in the raw format you presumably started with? is there any value in it? my opinion is that the process is literally nothing more than thinking deeply about the ideas and trying to phrase them in the clearest possible way such that you lead someone else into understanding them. LLMs have awful, terrible judgement of what other people know, or are likely to infer from a piece of text.