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		jjmarr 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2... Funnily enough, my Science Fiction class graded like that. If you didn't have high information density in essays you were torn into. AI was a disadvantage due to verboseness. Most people dropped the class and prof went on sabbatical.

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jasonfarnon 9 days ago [–]

Besides being tough, it's shaping students' writing in a specific direction. That dense style I think of as 19th century English philosophy prose, though I hear it may still be the ideal in parts of Europe.

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