I'm anon, but also the farthest thing from a progressive, so I find this post amusing.

I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying but I also have a different frame.

Even if we take your claim that LLMs don't make people better writers as true (which I think there's plenty to argue with), that's not the point at all.

What I'm saying is people are communicating better. For most ideas, writing is just a transport vessel for ideas. And people now have tools to communicate better than they would have been.

Most people aren't trying to become good writers. That's true before, and true now.

On the other hand, this argument probably isn't worth having. If your frame is that LLMs are expensive toys that ruin everything -- well, that's quite an aggressive posture to start with and is both unlikely to bear a useful conversation or a particularly delightful future for you.

> I'm anon, but also the farthest thing from a progressive, so I find this post amusing.

Oh I know. I called it hijacking because the result is as progressive as a national socialist is a socialist.

> What I'm saying is people are communicating better.

Actually they’re no longer communicating at all.

> What I'm saying is people are communicating better. For most ideas, writing is just a transport vessel for ideas. And people now have tools to communicate better than they would have been.

You would have to define 'better'.

It basically boils down to "I want the external validation of being seen as a good writer, without any of the internal growth and struggle needed to get there."

I mean, kinda, but also: not only are someone’s meandering ramblings a part of a process that leads to less meandering ramblings, they’re also infinitely more interesting than LLM slop.

> "struggle needed to get there."

"Struggle" argument is from gatekeepers and for masochists. Thank you very much.

Life is pain! Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. —The Dread Pirate Roberts

Everyone who’s produced something good, beautiful, or valuable has had to struggle. That’s just the way work works.

> The Dread Pirate Roberts

Okay, who is the next one to cite? Marquis de Carabas?

> Everyone who’s produced something good, beautiful, or valuable has had to struggle. That’s just the way work works.

It is simply not true.

It's probably true that it reduces the barrier to entry, you don't refute that point in your post. You just call it cheap marketing and hype.

Barriers to entry can be a good thing. It’s a filter for low effort content.

It doesn’t. You’re not entering anything with an LLM.

Of course you are. As the original poster mentioned, it allows lousy writers to get their ideas out in the world. Shitty writing is much more likely to be ignored than LLM writing.