Look I really like learning about science-y stuff-- Like I've been reading science magazines since I was in the 5th grade and found out my school library got the new issue of nat geo on the 16th of the month.

Anyway I have been getting into reading more lately (a thing I decided after I realised I was spending 20 hours a week watching short form content) and basically every single non-fiction book I've picked up has just been pure slop. All of them were written before LLM's became a thing but they read exactly like you'd expect an LLM to write them.

Now, don't get me wrong, some non-fiction is really good-- mainly in the social studies and philosophy space. But basically every single mass marked science book is basically slop. There's basically a single idea in the entire 300-400 page book, the first half of the book is history and promising how amazing this idea is going to be, then there's like 5-8 pages in the middle that have the main idea and then the rest of it is repeating everything again and just going "isn't this new idea neat?".

If your book only has enough content to barely fill the 7 minute TEDx talk you paid $2500 to give to promote said book then maybe wait till you have enough content to fill a book. That is exactly what these books feel like to read. Like someone is trying super hard to sell you on a milquetoast idea and most of it is centred around how smart the author is for coming up with it, even when "it" is something that has been around for a long time. This used to be a style that was limited to the self-help grift genre but ever TEDx talks became a thing, it has just spread like an infection into the science book genre.

Honestly you're better of reading a PhD thesis than reading non-fiction slop. At least you get to learn stuff and it is not written in the insufferable style of a 20-teens blogpost.

Anyway I'll go back to reading histories and philosophy.