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Simple clear english is for Wikipedia. Where I edit ruthlessly to make shit legible. The goal is transmission of information in a generally-accessible format to speakers of English who may not be educated or native speakers. Simplify everything. Elsewhere? Let your fuckin freak flag fly.

Your English isn't perfect? You sometimes break rules? So what! It's your voice, and it's infinitely more interesting to read than the samey narrative structures that LLMs produce. Just write; it was always enough before, and it is still enough now.

My favorite book has an entire chapter written from the “wrong” point of view and it’s one of my favorite parts of the story. Writing doesn’t need perfection to be excellent

Oooh which book?

I hope we can recalibrate our expectations of human writing. Elegant prose is a skill, and it takes years of effort to cultivate. Just like not everyone can do a triple lutz, we shouldn’t expect its writing equivalent. I’ll take clarity and precision over text that is moving in scientific papers.