Dylan, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on using AI technology for writing. This crystallizes thoughts I've had but hadn't put into words. My first reaction is to be amazed by what it does, then to recoil, knowing something isn't right but not sure specifically what. And seeing how you continue to use it, now I can see how using power tools doesn't make me a writer, but can be useful. Thanks for mucking around with the words to write this! It does inspire me to make that human connection. Don't you love the comments! It is fun having that back-and-forth with your readers. Here's to the power of relationships through writing! Thanks for inviting us to join!
You’re right that writing isn’t mere transcription, but the physics professor example shows the problem. The learning isn’t in the paper; it’s in the processes that produce the scientist.
Writing stabilises thought. The spatial loop in the shower, the social loop of dialectic, the emotional loop that fires before the symbols do—none of those are writing, and none of them are lesser thinking for it.
I think you hit the nail on the head with this: “you’re missing out on the fundamental value and pleasure of writing, which is using your brain to filter ideas through language, and language through ideas, in dialog with an audience (real or imaginary).”
Why would one ever want to outsource their pleasure?!?
Dylan, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on using AI technology for writing. This crystallizes thoughts I've had but hadn't put into words. My first reaction is to be amazed by what it does, then to recoil, knowing something isn't right but not sure specifically what. And seeing how you continue to use it, now I can see how using power tools doesn't make me a writer, but can be useful. Thanks for mucking around with the words to write this! It does inspire me to make that human connection. Don't you love the comments! It is fun having that back-and-forth with your readers. Here's to the power of relationships through writing! Thanks for inviting us to join!
You’re right that writing isn’t mere transcription, but the physics professor example shows the problem. The learning isn’t in the paper; it’s in the processes that produce the scientist.
Writing stabilises thought. The spatial loop in the shower, the social loop of dialectic, the emotional loop that fires before the symbols do—none of those are writing, and none of them are lesser thinking for it.
Oh that's a great point Peg. And I love this phrase: Writing stabilizes thinking. YES!
I think you hit the nail on the head with this: “you’re missing out on the fundamental value and pleasure of writing, which is using your brain to filter ideas through language, and language through ideas, in dialog with an audience (real or imaginary).”
Why would one ever want to outsource their pleasure?!?
Exactly! It's so much fun! Even when I am banging my head against the keyboard, hahaha!!