[paulus_magnus2]

I am waiting for an inverse model that will take a lengthy article (or a book) and "dehydrate" it giving me the underlying message.

A lot of articles these days is someone's twit build up with boilerplate - either written up by an intern or (AI ??).

Books are not much better - typical 300p book has a handful of thoughts the author wanted to tell me but to get it published it was required to match the target 300 pages so full author's bio was included.

[radu_floricica]

God, that's a nice way of putting it. A vast majority of books published nowadays could have been a series of at most 5-6 blog posts. It's gotten so bad that you have GREAT scientists that are actually partnering with journalists just to fluff up books and get them to the ridiculous number of pages they consider "proper".

Let it be stated publicly and loudly, so maybe some would hear: I'd gladly pay the same price for a 50 page book, and I'd actually be a lot more likely to buy it.

[latexr]

> A vast majority of books published nowadays could have been a series of at most 5-6 blog posts.

When you suspect a book to be one of those, do a web search for talks the author has given about it. The more hyped the book, the higher the chance you’ll find several talks around an hour long which are repeats of each other in different settings. Watch any for a cheaper and faster way to learn every meaningful insight from the book.

[pornel]

Senders will send fluff emails generated from prompts like "tell them okay, but in a polite business speak", and recipients will use AI to extract information out of that.