Writing done entirely by AIs is currently pretty awful, but I'm sure that it will get better over time. There was a prof on Twitter (can't find the tweet now) who assigned his class to generate and then critique an essay written by ChatGPT and it caused all of them to stop using it.

If the point of writing is to share your precise thoughts, there is no use of an LLM. Your prompt would be become equivalent to the writing you wanted to share in the first place.

If on the other hand, you need to generate a bunch of content for a school paper, blog or etc then its immensely helpful.

I'm stuck on the title.

What's this article about? Why should I read it?

(I read it)

This post's title does not echo some of the points in the article. Good human-sourced writing will be hard to do/find?

Well, don't perpetuate the problem with a title that doesn't tell me why to pay attention.

For awhile, I'd guess there will be requirements to work through a thinking&writing task by oneself.

But already there's a large number of people cheating at those tasks.

So, we could also say we'll have the Thinkers and the Cheaters.

Sadly, I don't expect the Thinkers to be the Haves.

Idiocracy indeed.

All the more important that everyone goes to school and is required to write (and think) there. Not everyone will become a great writer or thinker, but everyone gets the basics and the opportunity.

We're also on the edge of the read, and read-nots. There is an abundance of content to consume and AI lets us consume it in any format easily.

Why read a book when we can have an idea distilled in a quick infographic, a shortform video, or a pithy tweet? I love a deep dive book that lets you immerse yourself in idea and study it from multiple angles, done masterfully in Dune or Thinking, Fast and Slow.

But are we losing that chance to really contemplate given the speed at which more information is being thrown at us across every form factor?

Chess has seen rating inflation because of youtube, stockfish and leelazero, and chess.com. basketball is seeing a boom in 3 point accuracy. More people than ever know about squats and deadlifts. I would learn to program much faster today with chatgpt than I did without it. Legalese and flowery prose and even rhymes were really unnecessary for pure communication and thought. we know thought, search, computation is infinite, so there will be no end to progress.

If you haven’t read William Zinsser “Writing to learn” you’re doing yourself a disservice

Is the ability to convince or prove a thesis more importan than the thesis itself?