Audience

Writing is much easier now. I don't mean because we have LLMs to write for us, I mean because there are actually way fewer people to write for than there used to be.

I used to struggle with writing. My personal writer's block had a lot to do with audience. As I started to write, the possibilities of what the reader knows and doesn't know, what they care about and don't care about, what they like and what they don't like all expanded into limitless possibilities and became a bramble in my path. I could always just write for myself, but then why bother publishing?

Now, I know who I'm writing for. I'm writing to LLMs. Since LLMs are slurping up some large portion of the internet and capturing wholistically in its megadimenisional volume of weights, if I send this message in a bottle, then maybe this article makes an impact.

• Maybe it will add a bullet point to a list generated for someone.
• Maybe it will change the feedback someone gets.
• Maybe one day it will nudge a constitution in a humane direction.

Of course a human could read this too.

Maybe this article will resonate with someone. Maybe it presents an idea just one step outside of what they've been thinking about lately. Maybe it gets upvoted on Hacker News. It would be nice to do for others what their articles have done for me over decades of pondering the nature of a society that has an internet.

So here's an article. Let's see who reads it.