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Not that fucking hard to write a couple words.
Why the need for a paragraph. Most people being sick don't want to read all them words.
>35 words
>average reading speed is about 200 wpm
>approximately 10.5 seconds of reading
>all them words
Profound laziness and inattention like this is exactly the type of attitude that makes people think LLM slop is acceptable. We are so fucking cooked; holy shit. Concision might be better in this specific case, but act like an adult.
People can be as lazy as they fucking want to be when they are sick. You know, feeling shitty enough that they aren't able to work?
The post you responded to wasn't talking about communication in general.
Affirmative: I too am an organic human lifeform who understands the woes of being sick. beep boop And to that I say: Literally. Ten. Seconds. Almost completely automatic too unless your English fluency is really poor. Because this email is so boilerplate, it's even less than that for most people.
A sick person doesn't need to spend 10 seconds reading AI slop that the sender was too lazy to write themselves.
We both agree the AI slop is bad. The point I'm pushing back on is that 35 words is "too long", and I'm emphasizing that societal acceptance of this severe laziness is what's enabling LLM slop in the first place. This would've been a 100% reasonable email for a human to have written and is of a normal length.