I thought this was a great point in Venkatesh Rao's Terms of Centaur Service:
- I thought this was a great point in Venkatesh Rao's Terms of Centaur Service:
- "My AI expanding my one-liner prompt into a 1000-word essay that is summarized to a one-liner tldr by your AI is a value-adding process because your consumption context is different from my production content."
- There's the joke about how in the age of AI everyone will write bullets that are converted into a formal email, and then the reader will take the formal email and reduce it back to bullets.
- But that joke misses something important: the expansion and distillation process can be specific to that person[qd].
- For example, if I'm familiar with the concept of complex adaptive systems, a summary of an email might be able to elide that concept where for other readers it would have to be included.
- So that means there is information being added[qe] in the expansion and distillation steps.
- This is the power of liquid media.
- Media that can be adapted to each listener and give them what they need to know.