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Posted by mooreds 18 hours ago

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)
905 points | 382 commentspage 5
ETH_start 4 hours ago||
I think the future is people's AI agents evaluating the content generated by other people's AI agents and vice versa.

What the humans would see would be what is filtered up to them after all of this evaluation is done. And content generation would be the reverse. People would provide a seed of an idea and then their agents would turn that into potentially useful work.

jonathanstrange 5 hours ago||
For me the only thing that matters is the content the quality of the writing. If you're primarily interested in something else than content and quality, there is no point in reading at all. So I don't understand these anti-AI posts. If all they say is that most AI written texts are too long and badly written, I agree. However, that's also the case for many texts written by humans.
lazyownrt 17 hours ago||
How do I type this character on my English keyboard? — also not reading what you didn't write.
zahlman 3 hours ago||
On Linux, it's whatever you say it is, after reading through `man xcompose`.
Leynos 14 hours ago|||
On Windows, use wincompose. Space followed by a hyphen gives you an emdash with the cute half-width spaces around it. On Android, I can get an emdash by long pressing hyphen. There's also a keyboard shortcut on the mac for it. No idea about Linux/BSD or iOS, unfortunately.
projektfu 14 hours ago|||
On Windows I also use QuickAccent, now part of PowerToys. I could never remember the Alt-code for the em dash. Apparently it's Alt-0151. With QuickAccent I hold a letter and right or left arrow and up comes a menu of related symbols. It's pretty neat.

On Mac, it's option-shift-hyphen. Option-hyphen gives the en dash.

On Linux, you may be able to type Ctrl-Shift-U to get unicode entry and type 2014 and Enter. 2013 is the en dash. Again, I will never remember that.

asciimov 12 hours ago||
In Linux if you enable the compose key it’s the compose key followed by 3 dashes.
adastra22 10 hours ago|||
cute little half-width spaces?
Leynos 8 hours ago||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character#Hair_spac...
ZPrimed 14 hours ago||
on a Mac, it's Option+Shift+-

— (em dash)

Option+- gives you an "en dash": – which is longer than a normal hyphen.

physicsguy 10 hours ago||
I'm finding that executives at work are generating AI slop and sending it at each other and teams that are then meant to digest it, without any critical thought. Often these are sloppy and contain broad mistakes that aren't relevant to our company's setup.
bluegatty 12 hours ago||
"The design document is no longer a proposal to build consensus, bring people along with you, and refine ideas through slow, deliberate thinking"

I'm sorry but that's the last thing (almost last) I want to read.

I want an 'excellent summary' of the design including motivations and concerns.

Yes - the AI is bad at that but hopefully it will get better.

metalspot 15 hours ago||
And I don't want to read the millionth iteration of some old man complaining about the kids these days, written by a human or not, yet here we are.

If you don't like AI slop. Don't read it. But wasting your time generating human slop to complain about AI slop is so obviously futile that it immediately identifies the writer as lacking the capacity for reason or emotional clarity, or merely seeking attention for their self-promotion with clickbait.

neap24 15 hours ago||
The problem is, some of us work with colleagues, or even bosses, who throw AI replies at us in nearly every conversation — so we don’t have a choice to NOT read it.
metalspot 43 minutes ago||
I am sorry, I didn't take into account people in literal slavery. I am very sorry to hear about your condition. Perhaps you should contact the UN or some human rights organization, they may be able to help.
poulpy123 8 hours ago||
You don't have the choice to read or not read except when you read for leisure
bathtub365 15 hours ago||
I’m fine with reading something you didn’t write if it has the information I need. I’m not fine with reading something you didn’t read and will just waste my time.
benatkin 16 hours ago||
> I don’t want to live in a world where you use AI to summarize something important into unreadable text, and then I use AI in an attempt to decipher it. I want to hear you, imperfections and all.

It doesn't fundamentally change the equation if I use AI to prepare and then write it myself. If I'm using AI effectively, it's likely that you won't be able to tell.

This sort of post is increasingly coming off as high and mighty, where the user thinks they are being exceptionally creative and other people who are using AI are using it mindlessly.

atoav 11 hours ago|
As an educator in university I have found the project proposals of students have become longer, to some degree more well written and quite certainly have LLMs involved.

This becomes problematic when it turns out people haven't even read what they sent me.

To clarify: this is about voluntary projects that do not win them extra points.

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