@MissConstrue @Remittancegirl

It takes quite a lot of experience with being creative to realise that there are many right ways to say something and the version you choose is your voice.

I don't think these people realise what they're giving up.

I still get a certain amount of flak for writing emails that are to the point rather than containing paragraphs of what I think of as "linkedinese" in order to display imagined erudition rather than just say what needs saying.

(Edit: that could be "and how to say it clearly", for a start . . . but I'd prefer "and how to clearly say it", but definitely not "and how clearly to say it". And a grammar checker would object to my choice.)

The consequence is the rationalization of identities…at least in digital spaces. Personalities blur together in a grey sloppy mess - bland, lifeless, and hollowed out.

As soon as a broad category of activities is deemed immoral, reason went out of the window. Impossible to start any reasoned discussions as soon as people begin to shout "theft" irreflexively.

Of course I agree that billionaires are comfortably riding on the blood, sweat, and tears of humankind.

But that's capitalism, people feel very strongly about the symptoms and dedicate too little time, or spare any thoughts to combat the causes of injustice.

I'd like to add that sometimes perhaps we prefer to not say precisely what we mean even if we could.

Eg "come up with a reason to not visit my family over the holidays that isn't 'you're unpleasant to be around and your food sucks'"

If this is not part of your identity, you really don’t care if they’re not your words. If you feel like you’re bad at words, you want the reassurance of having something whose “job” is words do it for you. And you hated writing that email, anyway. (Plus, if you’re bad at words you won’t notice that what the LLM wrote is bad!)

Is it actually real savings, in the case of LLMs? I don't know. It sounds an awful lot like "they gift you the first dose, then..."

Plus, email and texting has condensed the expression of our language and humanness to memes and reduced our emotions to emojis.

The lack of language and words to write means the lack of words and language to speak and express ourselves through the spoken word as well.

I myself battle constantly with my urge to do things fast, quick, to cut corners, to Learn Japanese Fast. I've learned that you really, really can't. But the urge is there.

Probably true. But with independent AI agents, people won't even be giving commands.

"You threw out" tells me that you're not very receptive to any exchange of ideas. Which is precisely the irreflexive and blunt kind of discussion I don't believe has any merit to engage with.

Also "theft" and other morals encoded. What a mess.

Sadly, most writing tasks are pretty useless. Write a summary that no one will read. Write what you did this week and what your plan is for next week, that no one will read.

When no one's going to read it anyway, at some point all you'll care about is making it long enough.