The Devolution of Natural Language

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Two forces on language at once: the homogenization from slop output, and a devolution of natural language in how we address machines. Her own chat messages are ‘significantly less cogent than if I was expressing those thoughts to a person who couldn’t parse a huge paragraph so easily.’ The unexpected cost of being received as you are — when the receiving human is patient by design, the sender stops doing the work of being legible, and the prose degrades.

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