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Philosophy is prose, not poetry.
Last stated 27 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago
Holds Kieran Setiya
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Same subject: writing
A browser that answers with generated prose instead of links is not a web browser but an anti-web browser, and it hides that substitution from the person using it.
Last stated 22 Oct 2025 · a year ago
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Anil Dash
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Same subject: writing
A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.
Last stated 6 Aug 2026 · 3 months ago
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George Saunders
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Same subject: writing
A writer can be artistically important for revealing new possibilities without being technically skilled at prose.
Last stated 8 Aug 2026 · 3 months ago
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Henry Farrell
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Same subject: writing
AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.
Last stated 1 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
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Gergely Orosz
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Same subject: writing
As AI takes over more of the coding process, clearly specifying goals and exercising good judgment will matter more than ever.
Last stated 4 Feb 2026 · 9 months ago
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Scott Hanselman
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Same subject: writing
Because writing is thinking, a world divided into writers and non-writers becomes a world divided into thinkers and non-thinkers.
Last stated 1 Oct 2024 · 2 years ago
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Paul Graham
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Same subject: writing
Good writing is dense and interconnected enough that readers meet its knowledge at the level they are ready for.
Last stated 29 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Naval Ravikant
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Same subject: writing
Good writing is hard to train into AI models because writing quality is hard to evaluate.
Last stated 23 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
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Jasmine Sun
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Same subject: AI writing
A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy.
Last stated 27 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Molly Graham
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Same subject: AI writing
A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent.
Last stated 30 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Grant Sanderson
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Same subject: AI writing
AI can now produce in minutes work that used to take weeks to build.
Last stated 26 May 2026 · 5 months ago
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Carlos Alexandro Becker
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Same subject: AI and human skill
A machine doing your work better than you is no reason to stop doing it, because the point of the work was never that only you could do it.
Last stated 2 Jun 2026 · 5 months ago
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L. M. Sacasas
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Same subject: AI and human skill
A skill being automated is not a reason to stop learning it: practising what machines already do is often the stepping stone to what only people can do.
Last stated 18 Nov 2025 · 11 months ago
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Scott H. Young
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Same subject: AI and human skill
AI agents are now capable enough that they should be trusted to improve the skills and systems that guide them.
Last stated 11 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
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Fatih Arslan
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Same subject: taste
A big part of taste is delivering high levels of craft in an accessible way so that as many people as possible can experience it.
Last stated 21 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
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Brandon Jacoby
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Same subject: taste
A company name can have different appeal to corporate buyers versus their customers.
Last stated 4 Oct 2026 · 4 weeks ago
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Paul Graham
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Same subject: taste
A gift's perceived price is part of what it does, so a drink known to be cheap fails at its job however good it tastes.
Last stated 9 Dec 2025 · 11 months ago
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Rory Sutherland