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If you observe the trend speech has actually devolved with the arrival of popular internet networks. Today's elites talk in a fashion that would embarrass even their immediate parents, let alone their ancestors. Just look at the quality of presidential debates and political discourse we've been having for the past decade. Not just in the US, but all over the world. The situation is perilous.
Devolved by what metric?
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Can you expand on that? I can't see any sense in which an LLM improves the structure of the user's thought process
Here are two examples: a) No / little data: Whenever you are starting to think about a subject, you can ask it to give you a structure / categories. b) Existing data: What I do very often is to give it a lot of "raw data" like unstructured thoughts or an unstructured article, then I ask him to find suitable top categories.
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Here are two examples: a) No / little data: Whenever you are starting to think about a subject, you can ask it to give you a structure / categories. b) Existing data: What I do very often is to give it a lot of "raw data" like unstructured thoughts or an unstructured article, then I ask him to find suitable top categories.
a) Doesn't that mean to limit oneself to bias, mediocrity, and preconceived judgements instead of actually thinking?
For me it’s very important to emphasize that AI is a tool. You have to use it responsibly. But there is no reason not to use it.
Hopefully I'll live the couple of decades to find out if PG's prediction is correct, I would bet against it.
>in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write seems quite wrong to me. If anything the trend seems to go the other way - when I was younger pre internet most communication was face to face or voice over the phone. Now the predominant thing seems text - sms, whatsapp, this text box I'm typing into now. I saw a stat the other day that online / app dating had gone from a minority to over 50% of how coupl…
10-15 years ago I think this take was correct, the Internet was about writing. It isn't anymore, not for newer generations - e.g. Gen Z spending most of their time on Tiktok and phones, and not knowing how to use a word processor. In the span of ~30 years pg is talking about I can absolutely imagine some job where you speak to the AI and it writes the documents for you and you never learned how to write one yourself.…
>"Don't you hate Tuesdays?" "AHHHHHH"
so not really long-form essays. Maybe the future is that stuff?
the infrastructure of the internet has matured enough now that we don't have to talk to each other in ASCII characters any longer. being online increasingly will mean using your voice and face (or suitable synthetic alternatives) to talk to the rest of humanity. not like TikTok though with its algorithmically driven mental corruption. and not like YouTube with its copyright oriented business model. More like early days twitter. Just everyday people talking to each other. But video. And realtime.
That writing is the only way to do deep, clear, thinking simply isn't true. Stephen Hawking is the first example that comes to mind. He developed a remarkable ability to perform complex calculations and visualize intricate mathematical concepts entirely in his mind. He once mentioned that his ALS diagnosis, which limited his physical abilities, led him to focus intensely on theoretical physics, as it required more in…
> That writing is the only way to do deep, clear, thinking simply isn't true. You're correct here. > Stephen Hawking is the first example that comes to mind. The post is obviously speaking of the general population or at best average professional, and in my opinion choosing one of the most brilliant exceptional scientific minds of our lifetimes is not a good counterargument for a piece that speaks of a potential prob…
Strange example to pick as someone who did not write.
Writing and clear thinking are are related in at least two ways:
1. Both good writing and good thinking require structured thought, which is the ability to organize and categorize ideas in relation to eachother.
2. Both good writing and good thinking require meeting other minds: expressing your ideas in such a way that they are also comprehensible to someone who doesn't share our own brain. This is important because it's entirely possible to _think_ you have a good thought without actually having a good thought. The ability to articulate a thought is an effective discriminator between the two scenarios.
It's probably possible to think clearly without writing, if these two elements are still present. But writing well is an effective forcing function, which is why they're so closely related.