Jiang defines the New Yorker as bad writing because it can spend decades perfecting stylish language and theory while still signifying nothing.
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New Yorker
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Do you guys read the New Yorker magazine? Just the most pretentious crap. In this world. Okay. They spent decades perfecting their crap. It's..."
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"Do you guys read the New Yorker magazine? Just the most pretentious crap. In this world. Okay. They spent decades perfecting their crap. It's..."
"...around the world. And Ronan Farrow wrote a piece in The New Yorker about Sam Altman and his ambitions for the AI future. And..."
"...Farrell. And he's a very famous reporter who writes for The New Yorker. He published a profile of St. Altman and OpenAI in which..."
"...president he's just naming people boris gates uh bill gates the new yorker i got out of the room by the way it's all..."
"...actual invasion. And Seymour Hirst was reporting over and over in New Yorker that America was committed to a full scale invasion of Iraq,..."
"...fantastic reporter. I highly recommend this book. She's a reporter for New Yorker and spent years looking into why this torture happened. And what..."
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