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> You realize this “dumb blogspot” is written by the most successful writer in the industry as far as revenue from a paid newsletter?

The belief that adding ads makes things better would be an extremely convenient belief for a writer to have, and I can easily see how that could result in them getting more revenue than other writers. That doesn't make it any less dumb.

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At at least $5 million in paid subscriptions annually and living between Wisconsin and Taiwan, as an independent writer do you really think he needs to juice his subscriptions by advocating other people do ads on an LLM?

Any use of LLMs by other people reduces his value.

None of this proves anything other than he writes what audiences want to hear.

Which as we know has nothing to do with reality.

Who do you think his 30-40K paying subscriber audience are?

I can guarantee you that most of his audience stands on the other side of “yes advertising is a good thing” than he does.

He has said as much.

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