Good Writing
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Good Writing
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#3There was a line in the (not great) Ferrari biopic where Enzo is explaining his philosophy and says:
> In all life, when a thing works better, usually it is more beautiful to the eye.
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This is HN, PG posts will be instinctively and reactively upvoted.
That being said, this is pretty intellectually absent by the standards of a PG essay. "Writing good is hard" says man who has made his living off issuing advice that other people unconditionally obey. It feels less like a piece of solid writing advice and more like a selfish way to cover his ass now that the auspices of tech startups are shifting towards fascism. Like if the man behind the curtain started apologizing for the Emerald City and green-tinted glasses.
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#7What how does that concept work in poetry or lyrics, for example? Something could be completely fictional (and artificial) and still be exceptionally well written.
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#8Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.
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#9Wow, is this ever out of touch. People are currently confronting smoothly delivered, glib sentences that are wrong at an unprecedented scale due to widespread adoption of language model AI.
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#10Wow, is this ever out of touch. People are currently confronting smoothly delivered, glib sentences that are wrong at an unprecedented scale due to widespread adoption of language model AI.
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