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Comment by w10-1

3 days ago

True, but not fast. More fun than fast.

Fast reading does not just enumerate examples.

Fast reading does not straw-man.

Fun conveys opportunity and emotion: "changing behavior", "signals simplicity", "fun". Fun creates an experience, a mode, and stickiness. It's good for marketing, but a drag on operations.

Fast is principles with methods that just work. "Got it."

Fast has a time-to-value of now.

Fast is transformative when it changes a background process requiring all the infrastructure of tracking contingencies to something that can just be done. It changes system-2 labor into system-1 activity -- like text reply vs email folders, authority vs discussion, or take-out vs. cooking.

When writers figure out how to monetize fast - how to get recurrent paying users (with out-of-band payment) just from delivering value - then we'll no longer be dragged through anecdotes and hand-waving and all the salience-stretching manipulations that tax our attention.

Imagine an AI paid by time to absorb and accept the answer instead of by the token.

Fast is better than fun -- assuming it's all good, of course :)