Oddbean new post about login | logout @ca5977db here's one thing that baffles me about the "use it to summarize!" Use case for LLMs, don't most important documents *already come with a summary*? An abstract, an executive summary, a lede paragraph...
@5d5c4ecb honestly they’re rarely all that great. And then what if what you really need isn’t in there? What if you need a summary of the way a document addresses subject x, say, which is buried on page 65, 32, 87 and in half a dozen footnotes and 2 figures?