Thank you for saying this! It’s easy to have a very limited typical-mind-fallacy view of LessWrong readers, and hearing about preferences very different from my own is extremely important.
explaining them all to the AI is almost the same as writing the post itself.
Depending on your skill with writing clear, concise English, this may be true. For many, it may be that the effort level is the same between using AI well and just writing it yourself, but the effort type is different, and the quality is improved.
I think the potential value of LLM-assisted writing is very high, but it requires similar levels of clarity and attention to detail either way. Low-effort posts will be remain low-value, high-effort posts could get quite a boost.
Thank you for saying this! It’s easy to have a very limited typical-mind-fallacy view of LessWrong readers, and hearing about preferences very different from my own is extremely important.
Depending on your skill with writing clear, concise English, this may be true. For many, it may be that the effort level is the same between using AI well and just writing it yourself, but the effort type is different, and the quality is improved.
I think the potential value of LLM-assisted writing is very high, but it requires similar levels of clarity and attention to detail either way. Low-effort posts will be remain low-value, high-effort posts could get quite a boost.