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Am I just reading this blog post completely differently? I don't see anything reductive about it...? It seems to me like a technique for taking some rough stre
by wavemode 3y ago
Am I just reading this blog post completely differently? I don't see anything reductive about it...?
It seems to me like a technique for taking some rough stream of consciousness and have ChatGPT generate a complete, fleshed out document from it. It's more than just "notes", it's a specific format and prompt.
Whether it's of any use to you personally (I don't see myself using it, really) is a separate question. But I also don't quite follow what is offensive about it.
- gizajob 3y agoIt's like the instructions for using ChatGPT to do the grunt work of constructing text, which not being a fan of prose or well-schooled in prose, the author equates with good prose, not realising that writing good prose, at length, is an art and a craft. Oops too many commas.
- wavemode 3y agoI guess the part I'm missing, then, is where the author implies that the resulting document is "good prose". One could read such an implication into what's been written here, I suppose. But to me I read more that this technique is just about a producing something useful, not necessarily good (if by "good" we mean "equal in quality to what a skilled writer would have produced after many hours of deep thought"). Not every email we send needs to win a Pulitzer prize, after all.