inasmuch as personalised advice is possible just from reading this post (and as, inter alia, a pro copyeditor), here’s mine—have a clear idea of the purpose and venue for your writing, and internalise ‘rules’ about writing as context-dependent only.
“We” to refer to humanity in general is entirely appropriate in some contexts (and making too broad generalisations about humanity is a separate issue from the pronoun use).
The ‘buts’ issue—at least in the example you shared—is at least in part a ‘this clause doesn’t need to exist’ issue. If necessary you could just add “(scripted)” before “scenes”.
Did someone advise you to do what you are doing with LLMs? I am not sure that optimising for legibility to LLM summarisers will do anything for the appeal of your writing to humans.
Did someone advise you to do what you are doing with LLMs? I am not sure that optimising for legibility to LLM summarisers will do anything for the appeal of your writing to humans.
Good question, no, no one advised me to use this technique but I use it as a last resort. I frequently feel that I am misunderstood in communication. Often I feel like people’s replies to me sound like replies from totally different conversations or statement/questions to the one I just made.
If an LLM seems to imply the focus is different or overemphasizes something I didn’t see as significant, then I see no reason to believe that isn’t indicative that humans will be dragged away by that too.
It may well be. It’s been my observation that what distracts/confuses them doesn’t necessarily line up with what confuses humans, but it might still be better than your guess if you think your guess is pretty bad
inasmuch as personalised advice is possible just from reading this post (and as, inter alia, a pro copyeditor), here’s mine—have a clear idea of the purpose and venue for your writing, and internalise ‘rules’ about writing as context-dependent only.
“We” to refer to humanity in general is entirely appropriate in some contexts (and making too broad generalisations about humanity is a separate issue from the pronoun use).
The ‘buts’ issue—at least in the example you shared—is at least in part a ‘this clause doesn’t need to exist’ issue. If necessary you could just add “(scripted)” before “scenes”.
Did someone advise you to do what you are doing with LLMs? I am not sure that optimising for legibility to LLM summarisers will do anything for the appeal of your writing to humans.
Good question, no, no one advised me to use this technique but I use it as a last resort. I frequently feel that I am misunderstood in communication. Often I feel like people’s replies to me sound like replies from totally different conversations or statement/questions to the one I just made.
If an LLM seems to imply the focus is different or overemphasizes something I didn’t see as significant, then I see no reason to believe that isn’t indicative that humans will be dragged away by that too.
It may well be. It’s been my observation that what distracts/confuses them doesn’t necessarily line up with what confuses humans, but it might still be better than your guess if you think your guess is pretty bad