ML Researcher. I’m strongly interested in rationality, epistemology, as well as generative models, their shortcomings and societal implications. I also do music theory research on the side.
Currently at Meta.
Julien Despois
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ML Researcher. I’m strongly interested in rationality, epistemology, as well as generative models, their shortcomings and societal implications. I also do music theory research on the side.
Currently at Meta.
All of my school years I’ve been dreading assignments with minimum length. I ultimately always had to bloat my essays to meet the requirements. It’s sad to see that the same limits still exist today, like in some journals.
It’s hard to generalize, as some people may struggle to express all of their ideas when they don’t take the space to develop them properly. But setting a minimum will inevitably lead some arguments to be diluted in unnecessary prose for no good reason. Sometimes, one paragraph is all it takes to make a compelling argument.
I believe we have a natural tendency to conflate volume with quality: if you have a lot to say, surely you gave it a lot of thought. Obviously, this isn’t generally true. We find this bias everywhere, in long empty company meetings, in AI slop websites that could have been a short static page, etc.