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

What people on korrents have said about writing, newest first — 28 positions from 15 people.

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Who Everyone DSDerek Sivers 6 PGPaul Graham 6 GOGergely Orosz 2 MMMike Masnick 2 RBRadley Balko 2 AOAddy Osmani 1 ADAnil Dash 1 AKAustin Kleon 1 CMCharity Majors 1 DHDex Horthy 1 GSGeorge Saunders 1 GSGrant Sanderson 1 MHMax Hodak 1 PCPatrick Collison 1 SGScott Greenfield 1
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  1. SG

    Scott Greenfield quoted

    Our readingWhen a jury deadlocks, double jeopardy should bar a retrial, because the prosecution has already had its one fair chance to convict.

    Their wordsOnce the prosecution has had, and has lost, the opportunity to make its case, double jeopardy should attach and prevent a retrial.

    ↗Retrial Isn’t Double Jeopardy (But It Should Be)blog.simplejustice.us 3rd of 3 in this piece

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  2. 4 days earlier
  3. RB

    Radley Balko quoted

    Our readingForensic experts exposed as frauds, and the prosecutors who keep using them, face no consequences.

    Their wordsAnd while some courts have ruled that Hayne and West aren’t credible experts, the two men never faced any real accountability.

    ↗The framing of Chris Duncanradleybalko.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece

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  5. GO

    Gergely Orosz quoted

    Our readingWriting is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading.

    Their wordsWriting is thinking, and we are interested in your own thoughts and observations, not a sharp, one-sentence observation turned into three paragraphs of blob text by an LLM.

    ↗How software engineering is changing: an essay challengeblog.pragmaticengineer.com

    LLMs

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  7. RB

    Radley Balko quoted

    Our readingLetting prosecutors pick who performs an autopsy produces the findings prosecutors want.

    Their wordsProsecutors tended to choose doctors they could trust to give them the results they wanted.

    ↗The framing of Chris Duncanradleybalko.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece

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  9. GO

    Gergely Orosz quoted

    Our readingAI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.

    Their wordsThe reason for this hardline stance is that we believe in the value of human thought and experience, as told by people with first-hand knowledge. It’s also about the audience: The “audience” for AI-written code is usually a machine, whereas the writing in Pragmatic Engineer is for humans, by humans. AI produces a statistical average in its output which creates uniform, dull text that’s an inferior reading experience to human writing – at least today it is.

    ↗How software engineering is changing: an essay challengeblog.pragmaticengineer.com

    AI writing

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  10. 11 days earlier
  11. PG

    Paul Graham quoted

    Our readingIn ten years few people will be able to write, or want to read, anything longer than a page or two — and the few who still can will be powerful.

    Their wordsThere may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.

    ↗@paulg on Xx.com

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  12. 1 day earlier
  13. MH

    Max Hodak quoted

    Our readingTalking and writing are not read-outs of a finished thought -- they are the thinking, so a faster brain-to-text channel would not make you think faster.

    Their wordsWell, I mean first of all, I think that talking or writing is thinking.

    ↗From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodakyoutube.com 17th of 18 in this recording

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  14. 1 day earlier
  15. AO

    Addy Osmani quoted

    Our readingEditing your writing with a model pulls it towards one homogeneous style, far enough that you lose track of what your own voice was.

    Their wordsthe models are going to in some cases, I think, provide a homogeneous take on what writing looks like. And you start to feel like, wait, what was my writing style, you know?

    ↗From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmaniyoutube.com 21st of 22 in this recording

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  16. 7 days earlier
  17. CM

    Charity Majors quoted

    Our readingWriting is thinking on paper and there is no shortcut for doing that thinking, so handing the writing to AI hands away the thinking.

    Their wordsAnd I have decided not to sink anymore because writing is thinking on paper. And there's no shortcut for doing that thinking.

    ↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 20th of 26 in this recording

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  18. 6 days earlier
  19. GS

    George Saunders quoted

    Our readingA first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.

    Their wordsJust don’t do it. Accept it, whatever it is, as a starting place in the long game of exerting your taste on your own prose.

    ↗On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com 5th of 6 in this piece

    taste

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  20. 6 days earlier
  21. PC

    Patrick Collison quoted

    Our readingThe fear that a big lab will simply build your product is overstated, because no organisation can aggressively prosecute a hundred priorities at once.

    Their wordsAnd just human organizations are complicated and it's very hard to have um to manage to aggressively prosecute 100 different priorities and to deal with all the issues and interference that arises among them and so forth. And so, you know, Google has done incredibly well in a bunch of specific places, but it's not like Google has done all the things even if in some kind of basic material sense, uh Google maybe, you know, had that ability.

    ↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 15th of 20 in this recording

    Google

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  22. 2 weeks earlier
  23. DH

    Dex Horthy quoted

    Our readingModels will not learn to write maintainable code from today’s benchmarks, because the cost of bad architecture cannot be measured by running the unit tests — it arrives three to six months later.

    Their wordsthe problem with training models on maintainability is like the cost function of bad architecture and bad program design can't be evaluated by running the unit test because it hits you 3 to 6 months later

    ↗Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com 11th of 26 in this recording

    benchmarksdesignsoftware quality

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  24. 2 weeks earlier
  25. GS

    Grant Sanderson quoted

    Our readingWriting well means knowing the exact moment to be unpredictable, which is not the same as raising the temperature.

    Their wordslike when you're writing you sort of you sort of know in order for it to be good, you have to have an element of the unpredictable. And it's it's not just like increasing temperature in your mind or something, right? It's like knowing exactly the correct point when you want to make an unpredictable move.

    ↗Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what?youtube.com 17th of 23 in this recording

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  26. 8 months earlier
  27. AD

    Anil Dash quoted

    Our readingA 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.

    Their wordsAtlas is a browser, but it is not a web browser. It is an anti-web browser.

    ↗ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Webanildash.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

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  28. 11 months earlier
  29. DS

    Derek Sivers quoted

    Our readingWriting your thinking down in public is a form of life after death -- for human readers and for the language models that will read it too.

    Their wordsI'm trying to thoroughly write my thought processes, values, and worldview, so that you can remember it, re-create it and improve upon it.

    ↗Come and get me (both you and AI)sive.rs 1st of 2 in this piece

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  30. 2 months earlier
  31. PG

    Paul Graham quoted

    Our readingWithin a couple of decades there will not be many people who can write, because AI has removed the pressure to learn.

    Their wordsI'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.

    ↗Writes and Write-Notspaulgraham.com 1st of 5 in this piece

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  33. PG

    Paul Graham quoted

    Our readingMost people find writing hard because writing well requires thinking clearly, and thinking clearly is hard.

    Their wordsThe reason so many people have trouble writing is that it's fundamentally difficult. To write well you have to think clearly, and thinking clearly is hard.

    ↗Writes and Write-Notspaulgraham.com 2nd of 5 in this piece

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  35. PG

    Paul Graham quoted

    Our readingThe middle ground in writing disappears: what is left is good writers and people who cannot write, with no ok writers in between.

    Their wordsInstead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can't write, there will just be good writers and people who can't write.

    ↗Writes and Write-Notspaulgraham.com 3rd of 5 in this piece

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  37. PG

    Paul Graham quoted

    Our readingBecause writing is thinking, a world divided into writers and non-writers becomes a world divided into thinkers and non-thinkers.

    Their wordsSo a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots.

    ↗Writes and Write-Notspaulgraham.com 4th of 5 in this piece

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  38. 5 weeks earlier
  39. MM

    Mike Masnick quoted

    Our readingThe encryption-licensing charges against Durov are pretextual, a legal hook for prosecuting things France dislikes about Telegram.

    Their wordsBut, here, it’s hard not to see that as totally pretextual: an excuse to arrest Durov over other stuff they don’t like him doing.

    ↗Durov’s Arrest Details Released, Leaving More Questions Than Answerstechdirt.com 1st of 4 in this piece

    privacyTelegram

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  41. MM

    Mike Masnick quoted

    Our readingWhether the prosecution of Pavel Durov is an attack on free speech cannot be judged until the actual charges are known.

    Their wordsWithout the details, though, it’s really difficult to know if this is an attack on free speech, or legitimate charges over actual criminal behavior.

    ↗Arrest Of Telegram’s Pavel Durov Raises Questions, But The Answers May Not Be Known For A Whiletechdirt.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

    censorship

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  42. 12 months earlier
  43. AK

    Austin Kleon quoted

    Our readingReading bad work is instructive as well as reassuring, so a maker should not read only the good stuff.

    Their wordsYes! Reading bad writing not only boosts one’s confidence, it can be very instructive.

    ↗Read terrible books, tooaustinkleon.com 1st of 2 in this piece

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  44. 15 months earlier
  45. DS

    Derek Sivers quoted

    Our readingWriting one sentence per line, for your own eyes, improves prose more than any other habit.

    Their wordsI've been doing it for twenty years, and it improved my writing more than anything else.

    ↗Writing one sentence per linesive.rs 1st of 3 in this piece

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  47. DS

    Derek Sivers quoted

    Our readingA sentence that cannot justify a line of its own should be deleted.

    Their wordsDelete any sentence not worthy of its own line.

    ↗Writing one sentence per linesive.rs 2nd of 3 in this piece

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  49. DS

    Derek Sivers quoted

    Our readingWeak openings like “I think” should be cut, and a sentence started on its subject and verb.

    Their wordsChop the weak beginnings, like “I think” and “Whether or not”. Start with powerful subjects and verbs.

    ↗Writing one sentence per linesive.rs 3rd of 3 in this piece

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  50. 4 months earlier
  51. DS

    Derek Sivers quoted

    Our readingNothing you depend on to write should require an internet connection.

    Their wordsDon't depend on any tool that needs an internet connection.

    ↗Write plain text filessive.rs 4th of 5 in this piece

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  53. DS

    Derek Sivers quoted

    Our readingA plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.

    Their wordsPlain text files and a basic text editor are enough. This is everything you need for great thinking and writing.

    ↗Write plain text filessive.rs 5th of 5 in this piece

    developer tools

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  54. 20 years earlier
  55. PG

    Paul Graham quoted

    Our readingGreat designers make it look easy, and the ease is mostly an illusion: the conversational tone of good writing comes on the eighth rewrite.

    Their wordsGood design looks easy. Like great athletes, great designers make it look easy. Mostly this is an illusion. The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.

    ↗Taste for Makerspaulgraham.com

    design

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