While he may be referring to your favorite novel, it's also possible that Elon is referring to titles such as "How I Became a Fricking Girlboss" and "What's Mud Good For? The Big Book of Mud Secrets from the Mud Master Himself".
Self help books have like 10-20 pages of content over 200-300 pages so yeah. Definitely useful to sort out the garbage.
Many memoirs and autobiographies suffer similarly. Popsci and pop history books have tons of filler because they can’t trust the reader to have read more than one book.
It’s not like this is new really. Abridged books have been a thing for a long time. Reader’s digests. It was an actual job shortening information, writing briefs.
That type of job actually died long before LLM competition. Similarly editors got shitcanned long before current year, so basically there are jobs that have already been marginalized that can be resurrected with these tools.
>Self help books have like 10-20 pages of content over 200-300 pages so yeah.
Yup. Any nonfiction books (self help, biography, history, philosophy) 90% of the time can be understood just by reading the glossary.
>He isn't wrong if he's talking about nonfiction.
Which he likely is only considering nonfiction as he's a current day pseudointellectual male who can only see books for purely utilitarian function and not as an artform. Yet still spends dozens of hours playing videogames or smoking weed.
this is a classic linguistic misunderstanding. when programmers, pajeets and the whole pajeet-spirited tech industry use the word "book" you need to mentally replace it with "self-help book" because that is what the word means in their dialect. they don't mean, like, moby dick, they don't have a word for things like moby dick because they don't need it. so when you translate the tweet from pajeteese to english it becomes 100% correct: self-help books are like three pages of content artificially stretched to the size of a book and there is no loss in summarizing them back into the brief blog post they should have been in the first place.
Self help books have like 10-20 pages of content over 200-300 pages so yeah. Definitely useful to sort out the garbage.
Many memoirs and autobiographies suffer similarly. Popsci and pop history books have tons of filler because they can’t trust the reader to have read more than one book.
It’s not like this is new really. Abridged books have been a thing for a long time. Reader’s digests. It was an actual job shortening information, writing briefs.
That type of job actually died long before LLM competition. Similarly editors got shitcanned long before current year, so basically there are jobs that have already been marginalized that can be resurrected with these tools.
>ackhysually he meant THIS not THAT
elonsimps on full force today. He said book, not self help book. He has read non self help books and posted about it.
ok? Then he’s not a perfect communicator. When people say something like “murder is wrong” this doesn’t mean exactly what it says. It means that this person is bothered by murder, or that they would prefer if people didn’t murder, etc. Or perhaps they think there exists a God that will hold people accountable for murder. But to just say “murder is wrong” in itself is vague and can be interpreted in many ways. Very few people complain that works of fiction are too long (why are they even reading in the first place?). People complain when a non-fiction book is 200 pages when it could be 20.
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>ok? Then he’s not a perfect communicator.
Or he's a fricking moronic bugman pleb like it's obvious. I'll go with that.
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Anonymous
if he’s so moronic then why is he 1,000x richer than you?
1 month ago
Anonymous
Good point, good point
1 month ago
Anonymous
you're right, but I'm happy with my $196.1 million net worth
1 month ago
Anonymous
oh, you’d like to point out that he’s actually 10,000x smarter than you? My bad, my bad
1 month ago
Anonymous
I guess I can do with $19,610,000 if I sell one of my properties
1 month ago
Anonymous
I guess Jay Z is smarter than Heisenberg lol
Black person tier thinking
1 month ago
Anonymous
Hes not going to suck your dick anon
1 month ago
Anonymous
He literally inherited wealth from his parents
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Anonymous
Thousands of white dudes inherit millions from their parents, but how many of those dudes obtain a billion dollar?
Even Black folk know not to seethe at success. Resentmentgays stay seething
>this is a classic linguistic misunderstanding. when programmers, pajeets and the whole pajeet-spirited tech industry use the word "book" you need to mentally replace it with "self-help book" because that is what the word means in their dialect. they don't mean, like, moby dick
Yeah it's uncanny how for turbo normies and roasties in marketing a book is always written by some other roastie or turbo commercial normie to improve their entrepreneurial lives
Normal people have a hard time understanding the liberal arts. The liberal arts are a luxury of the wealthy, which is to say they are a luxury of those not enslaved by the market. Learning for the sake of learning and thinking for the sake of thinking are alien concepts to the average person. Their minds are hardwired to search for money wherever they can find it. The average person doesn't think of a university as a university. They think of it as a more sophisticated trade school.
Dude is a fricking moron, but he's not completely wrong here.
Many authors are sometimes incapable of cutting down useless crap that doesn't actually add anything to the story, or they intentionally bulk their book up since it increases the perceived value (more pages == better).
It's not just a book problem though, just look at the trend of video essay YouTubers making multi-hour long videos about the most benign shit.
Twitter users could have much shorter lives.
Would definitely be useful to shorten it to the salient points of them being born and catching a hammer to their stupid fricking faces.
Elon is one of those special people whereby you can clock others by how they react to him. If they hate him as if they knew him you know right away they're morons.
your life
I hate this midwit so unbelievably much.
While he may be referring to your favorite novel, it's also possible that Elon is referring to titles such as "How I Became a Fricking Girlboss" and "What's Mud Good For? The Big Book of Mud Secrets from the Mud Master Himself".
I think its more plausible he's talking about non-fiction
>What's Mud Good For?
Where can I buy this?
The Haitian National Library might have it.
Moby Dick.
Remove the whaling bits and the book is still good.
>remove the best parts of a book
>book is still good
I have never seen anyone use the word salient outside of a geometric context
Demons
Atlas shrugged
The bible
Damn. This homosexual should be sent to outer space and never allow him to come back.
Self help books have like 10-20 pages of content over 200-300 pages so yeah. Definitely useful to sort out the garbage.
Many memoirs and autobiographies suffer similarly. Popsci and pop history books have tons of filler because they can’t trust the reader to have read more than one book.
It’s not like this is new really. Abridged books have been a thing for a long time. Reader’s digests. It was an actual job shortening information, writing briefs.
That type of job actually died long before LLM competition. Similarly editors got shitcanned long before current year, so basically there are jobs that have already been marginalized that can be resurrected with these tools.
He isn't wrong if he's talking about nonfiction.
>Self help books have like 10-20 pages of content over 200-300 pages so yeah.
Yup. Any nonfiction books (self help, biography, history, philosophy) 90% of the time can be understood just by reading the glossary.
>He isn't wrong if he's talking about nonfiction.
Which he likely is only considering nonfiction as he's a current day pseudointellectual male who can only see books for purely utilitarian function and not as an artform. Yet still spends dozens of hours playing videogames or smoking weed.
He's obviously talking about nonfiction here but people will pretend he meant that everyone needs to read Moby Dick summarised in 15 bullet points
A lot of books modern political theory can benefit from this kind of thing plus going into the text on interesting pieces.
this is a classic linguistic misunderstanding. when programmers, pajeets and the whole pajeet-spirited tech industry use the word "book" you need to mentally replace it with "self-help book" because that is what the word means in their dialect. they don't mean, like, moby dick, they don't have a word for things like moby dick because they don't need it. so when you translate the tweet from pajeteese to english it becomes 100% correct: self-help books are like three pages of content artificially stretched to the size of a book and there is no loss in summarizing them back into the brief blog post they should have been in the first place.
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>ackhysually he meant THIS not THAT
elonsimps on full force today. He said book, not self help book. He has read non self help books and posted about it.
ok? Then he’s not a perfect communicator. When people say something like “murder is wrong” this doesn’t mean exactly what it says. It means that this person is bothered by murder, or that they would prefer if people didn’t murder, etc. Or perhaps they think there exists a God that will hold people accountable for murder. But to just say “murder is wrong” in itself is vague and can be interpreted in many ways. Very few people complain that works of fiction are too long (why are they even reading in the first place?). People complain when a non-fiction book is 200 pages when it could be 20.
>ok? Then he’s not a perfect communicator.
Or he's a fricking moronic bugman pleb like it's obvious. I'll go with that.
if he’s so moronic then why is he 1,000x richer than you?
Good point, good point
you're right, but I'm happy with my $196.1 million net worth
oh, you’d like to point out that he’s actually 10,000x smarter than you? My bad, my bad
I guess I can do with $19,610,000 if I sell one of my properties
I guess Jay Z is smarter than Heisenberg lol
Black person tier thinking
Hes not going to suck your dick anon
He literally inherited wealth from his parents
Thousands of white dudes inherit millions from their parents, but how many of those dudes obtain a billion dollar?
Even Black folk know not to seethe at success. Resentmentgays stay seething
>t.
>this is a classic linguistic misunderstanding. when programmers, pajeets and the whole pajeet-spirited tech industry use the word "book" you need to mentally replace it with "self-help book" because that is what the word means in their dialect. they don't mean, like, moby dick
Yeah it's uncanny how for turbo normies and roasties in marketing a book is always written by some other roastie or turbo commercial normie to improve their entrepreneurial lives
Normal people have a hard time understanding the liberal arts. The liberal arts are a luxury of the wealthy, which is to say they are a luxury of those not enslaved by the market. Learning for the sake of learning and thinking for the sake of thinking are alien concepts to the average person. Their minds are hardwired to search for money wherever they can find it. The average person doesn't think of a university as a university. They think of it as a more sophisticated trade school.
Dude is a fricking moron, but he's not completely wrong here.
Many authors are sometimes incapable of cutting down useless crap that doesn't actually add anything to the story, or they intentionally bulk their book up since it increases the perceived value (more pages == better).
It's not just a book problem though, just look at the trend of video essay YouTubers making multi-hour long videos about the most benign shit.
>what are some books that can be much shorter
This one. Should have ended when he should have died tragically from a ketamine overdose before discovering Twitter.
Twitter users could have much shorter lives.
Would definitely be useful to shorten it to the salient points of them being born and catching a hammer to their stupid fricking faces.
I don't agree with him about much but he's 100% right about this one.
Les Miserables.
Fricking boring ass Dickens' David Copperfield
Elon is one of those special people whereby you can clock others by how they react to him. If they hate him as if they knew him you know right away they're morons.
most of tim curran's stuff.