alt Hacker News> Why are we going through this encoding-decoding process? I think succinctness and low-noise writing will be treasured in the age of AI.
I hope so, because I hope this will lead to making it OK to skip the manual encoding process. After all, AI isn't doing anything new here - it's automating the customary need for communication to be in wordy prose paying right respects to right people. Maybe people will finally see that this - not AI, but the wordy prose part - is the bullshit that helps neither the sender nor the recipient, and it'll finally become culturally acceptable to send information-dense bullet point lists in e-mails instead.
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It's never been my read on people that wordy prose like this is done as a formality.
If a lawyer or am academic wrote it, it most often comes off as overly complex wording to prove a point of intellect or superiority.
For basically anyone else, when I see prose like that it most often reads like (a) they either don't understand the topic well or (b) they don't need to write it at all other than to stay busy and/or appear more valuable in a role.
perhaps, but humans are human, and building relationships require a culturally appropriate carrier wave - especially in global work
Bullet point lists aren't always the most optimal. Anything longer than 6 bullet points actually reads worse.
Writing is an art, and some enjoy producing or consuming verbose prose. I hope AI doesn't change this.
Personally, I don't appreciate verbosity while reading blog or news articles.
However, I don't think its bullshit. If a author is sharing, they likely are doing so in a manner that they find enjoyable.
The way I see it, you don't need to read communications like this if you don't enjoy it. Much of what gets said repeats what has been said elsewhere.
I don't see this happening. People learn wordy prose in education: an assignment requires certain amount of words, but the student is either unwilling or unable to come up with information-packed content and resort to padding with fluff. Some become copywriters, some middle managers, some HR. Eliminating fluffery makes these positions, built around wrangling as much written word as possible, suddenly obsolete and consequently people, because writing well masked fluff is their main marketable skill. There's very strong feedback loop working against information dense written word.