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by nine_k 3110 days ago
A summary is always a compromise, a judgment on which 95% of the text to leave off. Because of this, an ideal summary is hardly possible, and someone may always complain that a salient point was left out. This is not because the summary is "objectively bad", it's because the compression is lossy, and what's seen as salient differs between observers.