Reading LLM summaries vs raw writing has a similar feel to reading a "popular" social media feed vs a chronological feed.

Often the summary or highlights is what you want but too much and I start craving all the missing details and serendipity.

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Reality has a lot of detail and summaries fairly consistently pick the same subsets so unless you go to the reality-level, you're missing 95% of what's actually there.

And the details sometimes matter a lot.

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Yeah Google's LLM notebook is a nice blend as it summarizes but heavily references sources. Been trying that more and more

100% this

Been feeling very similarly lately and I’ve noticed it’s easier to skim over papers than it is to get overviews from LLMs

Oh nice! Must be in the air as I also read this nice piece which touched on the same issue

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-management-singularity

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