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Writing is itself an act of thinking, so automating the writing removes the thinking, not just the labor.

Drawn from what Derek Thompson said

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AI and human skill Practised abilities decaying because a machine now does them: writing, thinking, reading anything long.

writing Prose as thinking: writing well, writing by hand while a model offers to do it, and who will still be able to.

Why does writing matter, now that a model can write for you?under our view: Writing your own words keeps the mind fit, and handing them to a model hands over the thinking

What Derek Thompson actually said

  1. Derek Thompson Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra…
    The act of writing is an act of thinking, and to automate our paragraphs is to populate our screens with words without filling our minds with the ideas necessary to conceive of them.

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