alt Hacker News"...reading actual books in full might now be more valuable than it ever has been..."
Call me old fashioned, but when has this been ever not true? Like yeah, does someone read cliffs notes and go, "that was really edifying and I gleaned incredible insights into myself and the world!!!".
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> when has this been ever not true?
We had a literary explosion in the last few decades where the competitive advantage of reading may have reached its nadir. (The supply side also screwed the pooch. Recent non-fiction has been polluted with fluff. Literature, on the other hand, is in a renaissance.)
In the last two years, on the other hand, I’ve found significant advantage in being able to speak, write and read clearly. The only thing I can think of is people marking themselves through LLM use, directly and indirectly.
this is my constant take with “AI”…if you were lazy before, you’re lazy now. if you were producing slop before, you’re producing slop now
I think this just widens the gap between people who give a shit and those who don’t
the big thing that changes are the economics of laziness and slop
depends on the book? I've read lots of books where it turned out the author had effectively one idea, it should have been 1 chapter, but they turned it into a book with 24 chapters of filler.