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I don't want to read what you didn't write

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  1. hatthew · · focus · HN ↗
    As I have been saying for years:

    Writing is fundamentally the transfer of information from your brain to my brain. If you have 1000 bits of semantic information you want to transfer, you can't give 300 bits of semantic information to an LLM and have it fill in the remaining 700, because it doesn't know what those 700 bits are. If it's able to guess those 700 bits correctly, then they aren't true semantic information, and you really only have 300 bits you want to transfer. You might as well transfer those bits to me directly, rather than having the LLM add on an extra superfluous 700 bits that I then have to filter out.

    1. heresie-dabord · · focus · HN ↗
      > Writing is fundamentally the transfer of information from your brain to my brain.

      Writing is fundamentally an artifact of intellectual work that has been done.

      If real work has been done, there should be little work left for me to do.

      If no real work has been done, and all the work of validation is now thrown to me, then I am being asked to carry someone else's burden of work.

      Thanks but no, I have work to do.

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