Why We Write and Language Models with Maggie Appleton Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

This is a continuation of the conversation I had with Maggie previously: "The Dark Forest and Generative AI." We discuss why we write, versus why to use AI and LLMs to produce writing, and what effects that loss is likely to have.

Discussed in this episode:


Why do humans write?
Writing is around 5,000 years old
We mention a note-taking system called a "Zettelkasten" which I wrote about here
Writing to our future selves
How do we read?
Science and philosophy as conversations
On getting up to speed in conversation
How much to read before we should write
Who wants to read GPT outputs?
Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author" (1967)
The deep link between cognition, action, perception
The 4Es: embodied, embedded, enacted, extended (see: enactivism)
Moravec's paradox
Gwern

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