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This author is a very good and entertaining writer. You're really missing out if you don't take the time to read every word. Make yourself a drink, find a nice place to sit, and enjoy.

I was introduced to his work through an HN post last year. I was hooked by that first piece, and I've often gone back to his archive whenever I've had the time to read something long-form for leisure.


I didn't but I thought of that after reading one paragraph and noticing it was going to take some time to get to the point.


Was very tempted too, but preempted that by evaluating that the effort of opening an extra browser tab -> navigation -> model selection (select 01-mini probably) -> then back/forth copy- paste, was mitigated by a very quick skim read/jump to the end.


I use the Kagi Universal Summarizer fairly often, which I believe uses GPT. It's generally useful enough.


I've done it for this blog before. It's a writing style that's "not for me" even when the topic is something I'm interested in.


I copied the text into a TTS site and listened to it. Well worth it for any slow readers.


If I'm not interested in reading something fully I can get the main idea of it from skimming much faster than I could by getting an AI summary. And without the uncertainty that the AI got something about the summary wrong.


ChatGPT says: "The speaker wonders if others use ChatGPT to get summaries of lengthy texts to determine if they're worth reading."

Nope, just you bucko.


You are getting downvoted so heavily that I can barely read your comment.

Unfortunately HN has a hate for AI, but any writer should expect to demonstrate right of the bat that you have something worthwhile to share. Most stuff posted online is not worth reading. The article failed to demonstrate that, and it had the style of "I need to pad this to reach some kind of minimum word count".

I think reading the article was worth it, but thanks to the the style I was about to quit several times. Your solution of runnning it through an LLM would certainly have been a better outcome than this.


Imagine viewing reading what is at most ~2 pages of text as an "investment."




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