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A font that reads what you wrote

98 points · 44 comments · RohanAdwankar

  1. AnthonBerg · · focus · HN ↗
    The idea is amazing, and… how to say it?; The results are horrible to read in the same way as AI writing when AI writing is bad.†

    And I mean this in the best possible way. It's really interesting.

    There's this feeling of an intrusive forcing of something. A feeling that things don't… breathe? Feels like one already sifts out this sort of semantic weight when reading and to me the highlighting adds strange janky emotional-processing noise to the text; Uncomfortable and somewhat… dissonant?

    It's really, really interesting. I hate how disparaging to the project this comes out!! my apologies for that! I LOVE the project and what it reveals about text comprehension and perception of saliency and rhythm in written text!

    († footnote: feels like this to me)

    1. great_tankard · · focus · HN ↗
      i completely agree with this. it's a very cool idea and also i hope nobody uses it in actual writing
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