[ExI] Speed Reading ChatGPT Output

[William Flynn Wallace]

Don't forget the last sentence in a paragraph - it should lead smoothly
into the next paragraph.  I read many papers where it could be said of them
that they had interchangeable paragraphs (some books with interchangeable
chapters).

On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 10:07 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 11:21 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone besides me noticed that it is cognitively easier to speed
>> read AND STILL comprehend the output of ChatGPT than it is to read and
>> comprehend human generated text? Because it is generated by a
>> predictive algorithm, would this be predictable? Or, is it just my
>> imagination?
>>
>
> I think you are on to something here.  It's not just because it's
> generated by a predictive algorithm.  The output is more often summarized
> by paragraph: one can read the first few words or sentence of each
> paragraph in the middle and have a good understanding of the main point
> without parsing the rest of that paragraph, especially when it bolds or
> capitalizes them as headers.  This style can be imitated by humans, but
> ChatGPT more often actually does it, akin to how a factory robot has more
> consistent output than a human factory worker.
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