I *hate* that there are tools that tell you how to write better. I hate that they give you synonyms and tell you if your writing is persuasive. I think it takes all of the subjectivity out of writing, makes good writing completely irrelevant, and brings us closer to monotony
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watching the microsoft launch video today and seeing some ai tell a shitty writer to not use the word "social" twice in a sentence is the worst i've felt in weeks. this must be how traders feel when their work got automated by algorithms except writing is art, it's not finance
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counterpoint: finance is art and a lot of highly praised tech bloggers are mediocre writers
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I interpret this in two ways 1) the tools that we use that have become more suggestive are actively shaping the way we think 2) the tools we are are slowly becoming predictive mirrors of ourselves and we hate the reflection
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My skills as a writer are useless if everyone is a good writer I am *actively* playing the role of someone being "automated out of their job" --> except this has nothing to do with money or a job
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