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.

Dirac would never make that less vs fewer mistake.

Would Dirac get a job these days?

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 :/