Sometimes I read old books and It’s painful because I know there is no one alive who could write as well as the old authors did because of declining iq/standards/literacy and it only stands to get worse as more and more writing is taken on by AI 

The upshot is there’s too many books for one person to read as it is so

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How much can we learn by reading only the past tho
The learnings are to be extracted by those who can write today

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It’s not about the message — it’s about the quality of writing. No one today is capable of writing well to the same level, is my point

I was addressing the upshot part of your cast. In any case, the writing won’t improve in a world where people communicate in hasty medium like the one we’re using right now

eg. post-Renaissance thinkers wrote lots of letters to each other. Nowadays we cast, we broadcast. I think that lower writing quality stems from blurry mediums we use nowadays

You are right 
Affects more than just the writing quality too — it is our cognition and attentional abilities, memory….