Most written content nowadays is trash and useless because the authors themselves lack insight and don't understand the topic at hand---just like ChatGPT GPT made it seem as the barrier to entry is low, and this carried with it a bunch of writers who lack understanding and cannot reason or think for themselves about a topic---they lack the prerequisite knowledge (and experience) but still want to find clout chasing the trend The lack of understanding of how LLMs work is probably the source of all the unfounded claims about AGI Most written content today is quite superficial because the authors producing it lack depth, insight, and genuine understanding of the topic. Just try asking GPT for a summary and see how it summarizes the wrong things and misses the key points AI cannot reason or think in the true sense, just like most NPCs---it doesn’t understand what it’s talking about; it merely mimics patterns from the data it's been trained on There is no creative spark, no genuine knowledge production, no first-hand experience informing the content---AI is great at sounding coherent though, but coherence without substance is useless Via negativa, remove the noise, and gain clarity by removing distractions. Less is more when you eliminate the things that cause damage The reason via negativa works so well is because it's easier to know what not to do than to know exactly what to do