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by paulmd 1287 days ago
> More important was the thought process behind - “of course I’m not going to write 5 pages because some random person on the internet asked me to”.

But you would if a college professor asked you to. College assignments are the "generative prompts" of human beings, where you do random shit to please a taskmaster and produce generative output based on some inputs you've been trained upon.