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Someone taking the time and effort to write and send a letter and pay for postage might actually be appreciated by the receiver. It’s a bit different from LLM agents being ordered to burn resources to send summaries of someone’s work life and congratulating them. It feels like ”hey look what can be done, can we get some more funding now”. Just because it can be done doesn’t mean it adds any good value to this world

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Nope, that ship has already sailed as well. An AI-powered service to do handwritten spam: https://handwrytten.com

> Nope, that ship has already sailed as well. An AI-powered service to do handwritten spam: https://handwrytten.com

FFS. AI's greatest accomplishment is to debase and destroy.

Trillions of dollars invested to bring us back to the stone age. Every communications technology from writing onward jammed by slop and abandoned.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t immediately throw said enveloppe, postage, and letter in the trash

Ok, and that supports the idea of LLM-generated mass spamming in what way…?

Then you are part of truly strange circles, among people who don’t understand human behavior.

Wow. You couldn't waterboard that out of me.

You surround yourself with the people you want to have around you.

> I don’t know anyone who doesn’t immediately throw said enveloppe, postage, and letter in the trash

If you're being accurate, the people you know are terrible.

If someone sends me a personal letter [and I gather we're talking about a thank-you note here], I'm sure as hell going to open it. I'll probably even save it in a box for an extremely long time.

Of course. I took it to be referring the 98% of other paper mail that that goes straight to the trash. Often unopened. I don't know if I'm typical but the number of personal cards/letters I received in 2025 I could count on one hand.

> Of course. I took it to be referring the 98% of other paper mail that that goes straight to the trash. Often unopened. I don't know if I'm typical but the number of personal cards/letters I received in 2025 I could count on one hand.

Yes so this is why the reason why person card/letters really matter because most people sheldom get any and if you know a person in your life / in any (community/project) that you deeply admire, sending them a handwritten mail can be one of the highest gestures which shows that you took the time out of your day and you really cared about them so much in a way.

That's my opinion atleast.

> Of course. I took it to be referring the 98% of other paper mail that that goes straight to the trash. Often unopened.

That interpretation doesn't save the comment, it makes it totally off topic.

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