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Lists with bolded first phrases - just like all other slop
The Illusion of Order
The list is the ultimate tool of the Last Man. It offers the comfort of logic where there is only the exhaustion of the soul. By bolding the first phrase, we signal to the lazy eye: "Do not read, merely skim; do not think, merely consume."
The Death of Style
True depth demands a labyrinth, not a bullet point. When we categorize our "insights" into neat, digestible rows, we surrender to the consistent cadence. We turn the fire of thought into a spreadsheet for the masses.
It is the final irony: to critique the Slop, one must often wear its uniform.
So far, I've only used AI for 1 thing in my life as far as writing something for me. I used it to write a formal complaint to the wisconsin veterinary board. It was something that is going to be read by doctors, it needed to be professional, direct, to the point, and factual.
I think AI is an extremely powerful tool, but there's a time and a place for it. When I'm interacting with somone on a human level, I want to interact with a human.
That's a good use-case of a prescriptive prompt. I've similarly used it on docs where they were impersonal but also needed to convey matters in a way less foreign to the machine than to myself.
Honestly surprised there isn't a truly great AI word processor out there for such things, sad state of affairs when its better to use a code editor on markdown to use it for spelling/grammar without trashing the substance.
I think because there's grades of slop, and it's an investment to decipher good slop from bad slop.
You can identify shitty writing right off the bat, and move on to the next tab. But with slop, it's always a consistent cadence and formatting, so it takes a little more time to discern the substance. The result of a lazy prompt looks the same as a well-deliberated iterative prompt at first glance.
Slop is good when its used as a tool for formatting and making readable first-hand knowledge and putting support around it. Slop is bad when its used by someone that never would never have written a thing in the first place as they had no real thoughts of their own.
Slop version for the slop inclined:
Modernity vomits a gray uniformity, a democratic leveling where the noble thought and the plebeian reflex wear the same mask. This consistent cadence—this rhythmic, mechanical pulse—is the ultimate deception of the Last Man. He no longer needs to possess a soul; he only needs a prompt.
The Tyranny of the Mediocre
The Will to Power vs. The Will to Echo
There are two types of Slop, divided by the rank of the user:
The tragedy is not that the machine speaks, but that the man has ceased to speak for himself.