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At whose expense?


The article offers several options depending on the question's perspective. The commercial answer would be publishers of longer-form content, but the more sociologically important one would be that it is harming the ability of the average person to engage with long-form information, making the phenomenon costly to the whole world.


The idea that long form = good is absurd and this type of thinking shows how over-confident this author is in their own intelligence.

Information compression and storage is the baseline of our species evolution.


Ahh, it seems I made my comment too short.

I don't think that long-form content is always superior to short, but I do think overconsumption of short-form content reduces peoples' ability to handle irreducible complexity.


Agree the act of compression itself is likely a huge part of intelligence.

Also appreciate the joke.


Everyone's.




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