There's a famous Pascal quote, "I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
replyCommunicating an idea concisely is difficult. Most people struggle to get ideas across at all, asking them to do it well with fewer words is often out of reach.
This resonates well with engineers: making something complex is easy, making them simpler is harder
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replyWhile I agree with the spirit, I don't think the solution to bad prose is slightly less bad prose. We can write good prose instead.
replyit takes more effort to write with conciseness
replyIn my opinion: the only way forward is zero-knowledge-proof authenticated social media.
replyWe can’t have legitimate debate if we have to assume a few bad actors are cloning their voice by the thousands, poisoning debate.
If we can pin one account to a real person, we won’t get rid of LLM-content and misinformation, but at least we can hold them accountable.
Is the network based on trust and peer to peer confirmation of private keys from who you know in real life that you validated isn’t a robot ?
replyOr do you have something else in mind ?
> We can’t have legitimate debate
replyI'm not sure people really want that
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replyJudging by how my nieces and nephews text this has already happened!
replyhell yeah
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