For those even lazier/more impatient than I am, here's the prompt:
Please summarize the following web page in an A4 page or less:
https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/altoids-by-the-fistfu...
I'm going to take a guess that you're young and have loads of time to spend on absorbing random drivel just to figure out what it's about.
I'm not, and the precious little time I have left on this earth, I spend carefully, is all.
A jaded Grey-Beard rant; overall negative.
Perhaps there was some deeper message I missed due to the boredom.
If it's not, once you've read the summary, take a moment to decide whether you think the original might be worth reading for yourself.
I, for one, liked the narrative style and found the story enjoyable. I did not read it only for the information.
There you go, now there's no need to waste two hours of your life watching Shakespeare.
Beyond that, this a too-long essay about a deeply poisonous and discouraging worldview. I regret having read it. At least it wasn't written by AI!
What advice does one give when confronted with this?
The path didn't shift beneath your feet. You finally learned how to see in the dark, and realized you'd been walking in circles around a grave you dug for someone who was never real to begin with. What you're really mourning is the death of who you thought you had to be, and what feels like emptiness is actually the first honest space you've ever had to discover what you might want to become.
At least the phone screen could be displaying something interesting but most graffitis are pseudo-artistic "I was here" tags. I wish more of that paint was used to actually make a place nicer rather than worse. And don't get me wrong, I'm totally ok with guerilla, technically illegal actions taken by citizens to improve their surroundings but most graffiti are far from that.
Sounds like the Open AI logo
>Look at me now, having to Google how to read a text file line-by-line in Python despite having done it a hundred times at this point
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