Here we go, that's the real problem today, the lack of focus and not being able anymore to invest cognitive effort in long lasting things. Everything was turning into a short/reel/tiktok already, add llms for quick answers to the formula and that's a perfect recipe for disaster
I understand some books are worth their weight in gold. The real worry is, now that LLMs can "deep search" & present larger reports, some of which I read religiously without gaining much for the time invested, I find myself preferring shorter answers.
That is, the feedback mechanism (of larger LLM output being too verbose than being too substantive) is reinforcing rewards for shorter and shorter text spans.
Then when I switch to reading long form articles, long instructional/educational videos, or book chapters, I have caught myself running out of patience and reaching for summarisation by LLMs (sometimes, when I've bothered to check the original source, LLMs have thoroughly misinterpreted or skipped key thesis/points... Kind of the reverse "miss the forest for the trees").