> humans are needlessly verbose
What a depressing belief. Human communication is about a whole lot more than just getting your point across as quickly and efficiently as possible.
What a depressing belief. Human communication is about a whole lot more than just getting your point across as quickly and efficiently as possible.
What I don’t agree with is being needlessly verbose in circumstances in which the opposite is more valuable. Unfortunately, humans have a tendency to use flowery language even when that comes at the expense of message clarity.
Think, for example, of the countless self-help books that can be converted to short blog posts. Or think about legal or academic writing, which often stands in the way of readers actually understanding what is being said.
There’s so much writing like this out there that even LLMs were notorious for taking this over-elaborate language to a whole new level. And in my opinion that’s the kind of thing that we can (and should) avoid.
I've also noticed it when people post LLM writing on Reddit. Something may give me pause, and then re-reading the content any given paragraph was way off. I had even glossed over the bolded conclusion "it’s a coaching-wheels moment" (?) because as you read it your brain thinks of a way it could make sense.