Thinking of it another way, the author is challenging the efficacy of learning from books, which is actually a pertinent point to make in a post GPT3 world. But

Thinking of it another way, the author is challenging the efficacy of learning from books, which is actually a pertinent point to make in a post GPT3 world. But, tbf, the author doesn't make that specific point. So long as I am able, I will always try to find time to read something new. Especially from books. I can't be precise about this point, but I seriously believe that the kind of information that can be conveyed in a book, cannot be communicated any other way. I think it's fair to discuss what can be gleaned from a single reading of a book, but there can never be any question of just how much can be communicated by a book, and how much can be learnt from one. The advent of cinema, and even personal computing, has only served to show how essential a technology the written word is. It's going to take a very radical piece of technology to improve on it. One that we probably won't see in our time.