Zhongmang Cheng
For automatic readers
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For human readers
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Humans need narratives. Identity gets parsed through tags — a title, a role, something categorical enough to repeat in conversation. People are not tags. A unified narrative simply erases whatever doesn't fit, and most people mistake that deletion for understanding.
Structured data is more precise. It is also, apparently, difficult to read. Almost nobody looks at a nested JSON and thinks: yes, this is exactly what I wanted. That's just how cognition works.
"But language models hallucinate!" — so does human memory. Memory is not retrieval, it is reconstruction. Every recall is a rebuild exposed to distortion: gaps filled by inference, specifics rounded to fit categories, details invented on the spot.
So I have stopped optimizing my own website for a unified narrative. This page is optimized for automatic readers.