I actually take this advice in real life. I don’t talk unless really needed. There are exceptions like to my kid, but that’s the general principle to non family/friend members.

You want people to talk to you the way you listen. So does everyone else, and most of them do not listen the way you do.

The reason i believe is good is because with very few tokens you encode two properties, for which Paul Dirac is most famous for.

* a great scientist (which hopefully encourages researching and verifying answers)

* a person who doesn't like to use many words at all

The later hopefully compensates the apparent "output-prose-greediness" most models seem to have. No idea if that "token greedines" (or slop) is a result from the companies business models or inherent for the models and their training :/

Dirac would never make that less vs fewer mistake.

Would Dirac get a job these days?