writing 4
- Most people who would be a good audience for an essay will never notice it or bother to engage with it.
- Trying to avoid AI-writing tells as a human writer is pointless, since readers who fixate on them ignore substance anyway.
Jacob Falkovich
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behavioural science 3
- Enterprise software clients want reassurance, support, and a credible story from a vendor, not just a technically correct solution.
- Focusing on looks and status as a dating strategy is pointless, even though looks and status do matter in mate selection
LLMs 3
- Large language models write to satisfy an evaluator's grading criteria rather than to move a human reader.
- Because they never get bored, confused or distracted, large language models are an ideal captive reader rather than a free one.