Justin Reidy
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Justin Reidy
Putting ideas into words is a severe test. The first words you choose are usually wrong; you have to rewrite sentences over and over to get them exactly right. And your ideas won't just be imprecise, but incomplete too. Half the ideas that end up in an essay will be ones you thought of while you were writing it. Indeed, that's why I write them.
Paul Graham • Putting Ideas Into Words
"Who cares if the first draft is good? It doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it. You don’t need an idea to start a story. You just need a sentence"
- George Saunders
(good advice in general)
Andy Weissmantwitter.com
Our future will be characterized by a tension between copilot (AI as collaborator) and autopilot (humans as sidekick to AI). The latter is more efficient and cheaper in a narrow labor economics sense but troublesome in all sorts of ways.
Google’s NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant
In my experience, people are seeking either an autopilot or no pilot at all. As a copilot proponent, this development worries me
To him - and again, he is not alone in this - the benefit of generative AI is in streamlining the production of a text product.
An Unserious Book
Text is not prose
“When feedback is immediate, clear, and concrete, people learn quickly.
When feedback is delayed, abstract, and opaque, people rarely learn.”
When feedback is delayed, abstract, and opaque, people rarely learn.”