The impact of writing is immensely undervalued. Even writing with a keyboard or screen is a lot more than non writing. Exercising writing on any topic is still beneficial, and you can find many psychologists recommend having a daily blog of some sort to help people observe themselves from a side. The same goes for speaking, public speech if u want, and therapeutic daily acting-playing which is also overlooked.
I’d love to see some sort of study on people who actively particulate writing their stuff on social media and those who don’t.
If u want to spare your mind from GPT numbness - write or copy what it tells you to do by hand, do not abandon this process.
Or just write code, programs, essays, poems for fun. Trust me - it is and you’ll get smarter and more confident. GPT is a very dangerous convenience gadget, is not going away like sugar or Netflix, or obesity or long commutes … but similarly dosage and counter measures are essential to cope with the side-effects.
The only writing I've ever used ChatGPT for is writing I openly don't give a shit about, and even then I constantly find myself prompting it to write less because holy shit do LLMs love to go on and on and on.
Like not only do I cosign all said above, but I will also add to this: brevity is the soul of wit and none of these fucking things are brief. No matter what you ask for you end up getting just paragraphs of shit to communicate even basic ideas. It's hard to not think this tool was designed from go to automate high school book reports.
I would only use these programs to either create these overly long, meandering stupid emails, or to digest ones similarly sent to me, and make a mental note to reduce my interactions with this person.
It's no wonder the MBA class is fucking thrilled with it though, since the vast majority of their jobs seem to revolve around producing and consuming huge reports containing vacuously little.
not all humans are brief, and not all situations are amenable to brevity, but I get the point, as brevity can be be exceptionaly informationaly dense, but like in humor(sports), it only works if someone else plays the strait guy or set up artist.
Also true masters will switch up, happy to join ingeneral blather, and then drop a subtle, brief comment that is the bridge piece for an otherwise huge informational set.Another thing many performers and writers describe is the finding of the voice or stage/writing persona....perhaps quite different from the one that they inhabit at home.
The topic at hand leaves out the trap of standing behind a persona, that the person cant then inhabit, and then can be caught out in a real world situation as an imposter, ha!
Similarly, the impact of white-boarding-type activities is undervalued. When discussing problems with a viewpoint, a quick whiteboard usually gets at some easy-to-find underlying issues that others can understand, rather than it devolving into positional framings.
I’d love to see some sort of study on people who actively particulate writing their stuff on social media and those who don’t.
If u want to spare your mind from GPT numbness - write or copy what it tells you to do by hand, do not abandon this process.
Or just write code, programs, essays, poems for fun. Trust me - it is and you’ll get smarter and more confident. GPT is a very dangerous convenience gadget, is not going away like sugar or Netflix, or obesity or long commutes … but similarly dosage and counter measures are essential to cope with the side-effects.