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Are We Losing the Ability to Read Books? (scotthyoung.com)
4 points by deepzn on March 25, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This is already the case I think. Less and less people want to read books. We are coming to a point where nobody can even watch a long video explanation of a concept. This is the TikTok age and short addictive content dominates. And the coming changes (LLMs) don't seem like will incentivize consuming long form content.


You wonder with ChatGPT, a lot has been said that it would be the demise of writing, and language. But perhaps would be for reading sadly as well. Why read a complex text when one can get a summary of everything in bullet points...or something like that.




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