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Why We Write and Language Models with Maggie Appleton

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

CHAPTER

The Importance of Writing

I'm not convinced that language models will be able to do well at all, but I'll get into them later. One of the main reasons we write is to try to like be a first person observer on the world and then communicate all those details that are so hard to condense into something like text. It's really hard to write about specific detail and do it really well without it sounding cliche or you kind of go on for too long about all the details. This is just what good non-fiction on good story is. Yes.

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