Post #1496222
2026-04-17 06:12 UTC
@boon
Most clickbait recently is generated by LLM anyway, and I have trained myself to catch clickbait on first 2-3 sentences.
In case of my story, they were given a TASK to read it and draw a picture. And this was a group of ~10-13 y.o. so not 40+ ppl burned by everyday social media crap, but kids now unable to actually READ. Even if it's a two-page story in a printed magazine.
I think the only parts I ever skip are cosmic battles in the Honor Harrington series. The author goes into such unnecessary, repetitive DETAIL...! Two hundred missiles were shot, of which one hundred were taken off by decoys, eleven went off course .... the remaining three hit the aft port lower deck nineteen, twenty and twenty one which suffered air loss and explosions, killing thirteen crew members, a dog and a warrant officer stuck in the toilet.
The moment I see first missile launch, I skip to the next dialogue :>
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@boon@wspanialy.eu 2026-04-17 15:19
@srebrna that's probably the sole reason I've never got through Honor... I like the space beer can and his fellow pirate apes much more. As to the kids, yeah I know ... Mostly because my own son is so different from that. The little 9yo bugger draws out a book every spare moment. Couldn't be more proud xD I think those kids just take whatever burnout their parents have and treat it as a gauge for what's normal. Their parents act like that thus so do they. Their parents are in awe of what llm's do and so are they. Their parents use tiktok/Facebook/twitter or whatever, and they want that too.