alt Hacker News> Usually, they generate so much text that it becomes impossible to follow through.
Quite often on reddit I'll write two paragraphs and get told "I'm not reading all that".
Really? Has basic reading become a Herculean task?
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I think the sentiment here is that the short formulation of Kant's categorical imperative is as good and easier to read than the entirety of "types of ethical theory" (J.J. Martineau).
> Has basic reading become a Herculean task?
I find LLM slop much harder to read than normal human text.
I can't really explain it, it's just a feeling.
The feeling that it draaaags and draaaaaags and keeeeeps going on and on and on before getting to the point, and by the time I'm done with all the "fluff", I don't care what is the text about anymore, I just want to lay down and rest.
The lesson there is that your writing is not fit for its audience. Whether you choose to blame the audience or adjust your writing is up to you. There's no real answer - sometimes the audience is morons and you are actually just wasting your time and other times you are being overly verbose and uninteresting. You are being given signal. Use it.
But realistically, I am not going to read every online comment carefully because the SNR is low, especially on Reddit. Make your case concisely and meaningfully.
Not specifically about your case, but some people are usually just more verbose than others and tend to say the same thing more than once, or perhaps haven't found a clear way of articulating their thoughts down to fewer words.