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Maybe it's worth a try, in order to advance science. But, generally, I think that text synthesis ultimately is one of those problems that we really cannot hope to solve before we've also solved the problem of creating full blown artificial general intelligence. When we have a system that actually understands both the world and the human beings in it, then we can probably also have a system capable of writing intelligent essays. Before that, we'd just be fiddling with different degrees of extremely stupid, I think.