Is legibility necessary? →No
AI's use of Scrapbox is effective for knowledge utilization, but is difficult to read.omni.icon
from Is this the end of the 🤖"public Scrapbox period"?
Do you need readability?
This is an obvious no.
Scrapbox itself is "hard to read" from "people who are not used to reading Scrapbox" in the first place
Kozaneba is also "hard to read" from "people who are not used to it."
Even if you're used to it, it might be hard to read for anyone but the person who created it.
What that means is that "the intermediate product of intellectual production is hard to read."
Because the "end product" such as a book is the result of "processing to make it readable.
It's not my goal to make intermediate products widely readable to many people.
On the other hand, the fact that intermediate products are difficult to read for the individual and those involved in intellectual production is a loss
Parable of the Dirty Notebook
Writing notes with dirty handwriting and not reading them back because of the person's unconscious pain in reading them.
It's not about writing notes.
Writing helps to organize thoughts and to read and refine them after a period of time.
Notes with dirty handwriting throw the latter away.
You may read it, but you don't have to.
If the text isn't meant to be read, there's no need to make it easy to read.
That said, there are a few people who like to read my Scrapbox, and it will be interesting to see what value they find in it.
In other words, it may not be a dichotomy of "easy-to-read clean text" and "hard-to-read intermediate product"
Those people don't come here to read easy-to-read text.
In other words, there must be some kind of "need that is being met by the hard-to-read Scrapbox", and fulfilling that need could be scaled by LLM.
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