Response
I’ve spent decades writing and editing; I know the feeling — of reward and hard-won clarity — that writing produces for me. But if you never build those muscles, will you grasp what’s missing when an L.L.M. delivers a chirpy but shallow reply? What happens to students who’ve never experienced the reward of pressing toward an elusive thought that... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | the Seductions of A.I. For the Writer’s Mind - The New York Times
An essay is not the process of translating a fully-formed idea into words on a page; it is the process of discovering and testing an idea by challenging it with form, syntax, structure. The friction between idea and ability that AI evangelists promise to eradicate is not a problem suffered by a disadvantaged few. It’s the fundamental condition of... See more
Rayne Fisher-Quann • Choosing to Walk
writing allows me to rearrange sentences on my own and organize the thoughts that I have. writing is inherently solitary and i love that: i can write whenever and wherever.
yet simultaneously, to write for someone is inherently compassionate: rearranging sentence structures and utilizing rhetorical devices so that my idea can be transferred to
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