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by Kim_Bruning 20 days ago
I wonder if more people have considered doing the opposite? You can just as easily use AI assist to compress a long rambling thought down to its essence. There's no reason you can't apply taste to the entire process.

That does seem rather more polite and respectful of people's time.

I do have this intuition though: some variant of Gresham's law or Akerlof's Market For Lemons may apply [1][2].

It takes more effort to put together a well compressed post or message; it'll drown in the sea of content which is easier to to type or generate; and it is hard to distinguish.

(Also: how many people think to eg. drop a post into an LLM to find the components expanded back out? )

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons