I'm seeing this with a relative. I know how he speaks in person. Everything written down now sounds nothing like him. Polished. It may make someone sound 'smarter' to people who don't know the writer, but it is a clear disconnect from the real person.
In general, I think that writing allows people to choose words in a more structured way. It's a slower process, and especially for people that have English non as their first language, writing was always helpful that way.
My point is more if you have nothing meaningful to say in person, how do you become this sort of living Socrates when you write?!
My relative has very little constructive to say in person lol.
You're right that writing forces me to work on structure of messaging in a more thoughtful manner (I cleaned that sentence up three times!). I like to write - my career includes time as a voice actor and owner of a boutique creative studio.
I became more interesting by reading, which lead me to think more and then write to share those ideas. Input leads to more productive output.
I don't quite agree that writing is the only proof of thinking. I think pretty much all the time, switching between topics and contexts. For me writing is simply the final part of wrapping up the multiple chunks of thinking, like a checkpoint. But many kinds of thinking don't necessarily require writing in the process. But with everything else I totally agree, which is a quite sad new reality. I feel like the skill of detecting LLM-written text from the first sentence is a vital skill now.
"Use your personal history as the anchor for your claims. If you are talking about business, tell me about the time you lost a client because you were too arrogant (true story). If you are talking about philosophy, tell me how it helped you when your daughter is throwing a tantrum (true story, again)."
I am sorry this kind of emo-kitsch makes me personally always extremely suspicious. Possibly it attracts a lot of people... not me. Also, you can easily instruct AI to construct this kind of interlude.
----But your remarks about "trusted presence" are very true and good advise.
This kind of commentary about "lost a client" tries too hard to sound sincere and authentic to my taste. Any AI can come up with it, it is no sign of authenticity. It adds nothing but (possibly fake) emotion, unless of course it is a story rooted in reality with names and dates.
Got it. I will never write the names of my client and every story I tell is slightly obfuscated with different details. Even in my book, I used names of fantasy, although all the stories I mention are real.
I'm seeing this with a relative. I know how he speaks in person. Everything written down now sounds nothing like him. Polished. It may make someone sound 'smarter' to people who don't know the writer, but it is a clear disconnect from the real person.
In general, I think that writing allows people to choose words in a more structured way. It's a slower process, and especially for people that have English non as their first language, writing was always helpful that way.
My point is more if you have nothing meaningful to say in person, how do you become this sort of living Socrates when you write?!
My relative has very little constructive to say in person lol.
You're right that writing forces me to work on structure of messaging in a more thoughtful manner (I cleaned that sentence up three times!). I like to write - my career includes time as a voice actor and owner of a boutique creative studio.
I became more interesting by reading, which lead me to think more and then write to share those ideas. Input leads to more productive output.
This piece blew my mind in the best way. As a writer myself, this is one of the most important ideas today. Amazing ~human generated~ work @Maurizio 👏
I don't quite agree that writing is the only proof of thinking. I think pretty much all the time, switching between topics and contexts. For me writing is simply the final part of wrapping up the multiple chunks of thinking, like a checkpoint. But many kinds of thinking don't necessarily require writing in the process. But with everything else I totally agree, which is a quite sad new reality. I feel like the skill of detecting LLM-written text from the first sentence is a vital skill now.
How do you calcify and document what you are thinking?
Writing as proof of thought does NOT lead to the implication: "if you don't write THEN you don't think".
It leads to: "if you write THEN you did think"... But my point is that this statement has become less and less true as LLM's usage took over.
Yes, I agree with that.
"Use your personal history as the anchor for your claims. If you are talking about business, tell me about the time you lost a client because you were too arrogant (true story). If you are talking about philosophy, tell me how it helped you when your daughter is throwing a tantrum (true story, again)."
I am sorry this kind of emo-kitsch makes me personally always extremely suspicious. Possibly it attracts a lot of people... not me. Also, you can easily instruct AI to construct this kind of interlude.
----But your remarks about "trusted presence" are very true and good advise.
Can you elaborate on what makes you suspicious? I didn't get the comment tbh...
This kind of commentary about "lost a client" tries too hard to sound sincere and authentic to my taste. Any AI can come up with it, it is no sign of authenticity. It adds nothing but (possibly fake) emotion, unless of course it is a story rooted in reality with names and dates.
Got it. I will never write the names of my client and every story I tell is slightly obfuscated with different details. Even in my book, I used names of fantasy, although all the stories I mention are real.