It's a kind of shared fiction of an imaginary person's thinking, really. The author writes "now, I know what you must be thinking", and hopes the reader will agree "OK, close enough".
reply> It's a kind of shared fiction of an imaginary person's thinking, really
replyThat is the best way I’ve seen anyone put into words what I feel about those types of theses
Most valuable thinking is done at the margins, where you don’t have much capacity to emphasize with a diverse and unknown audience.
replyThat said, abdicating to an LLM is the worst of all worlds - you’re not thinking and the product is not tailored.
The solution is obvious - write as much detail as you need and allow readers to interrogate the virtual you with an LLM, maybe not even reading what you write.