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by soVeryTired 3090 days ago
His comparison to literature falls short in another way: he only considers the great writers. Sure, Dostoevsky is hard to read. But most writers aren't Dostoevsky: some writing is just hard to read because it's bad.

I think a better comparison would be to undergraduate essays. Most of the time the essential points are there, but if the author doesn't know how to write coherently the result is confusing.