Indy and the Pelican - The Monday Morning Memo

“The difference between writing and editing is like the difference between writing and reading.

Reading is enormously important. Obviously, it closes the gaps of our ignorance and expands our knowledge, but it does so through the language of others; their words, their sentences, their narratives and arguments.

Editing, too, begins with the language of someone else in the case of ChatGPT, something else. Of course, to some extent, writing is editing, too. We inherit our language and its rules from culture from the past. We express ourselves through a system that we didn’t invent, but that system is so infinitely flexible that we can use it to create structures of our own.

Language is how human beings understand themselves and the world. But writing is how we understand uniquely. Not to write is to live according to the language of others. Or worse, to live through edits, tweaks, and embellishments to language generated by an overconfident AI chatbot.”

- Evan Puschak, The Nerdwriter

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