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Writing is thinking if not outsourced
Paul Graham [1] made a prediction in 2024 in his essay "Writes and Write-Nots" [2]. In a couple of decades, not many people will be able to write.
>There may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.
That is his claim [3], and he is not wrong.
Attention has been dwindling for years already. Short videos, algorithmic feeds, and now cheap AI drafts have removed both the need and the habit of sitting with anything longer than a page or two. Why struggle with a paragraph when a model can produce one in seconds?
Graham says that writing survived as a mass skill because the world forced it on people. You had to write at school, at work, in life. Once that pressure goes, the middle layer collapses. The okay writers vanish. What remains is a small group who still write because they like thinking on the page, and a much larger group who outsource the work. When you outsource the writing, you outsource the thinking too.
Due to AI almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can get AI to do it for you, in school and at work. The result will be a world divided into writes and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who cannot write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, average writers, and non-writers, there will just be good writers and non-writers.
The reason goes back to what Graham keeps saying.
>Writing is thinking
Nobody can say this better than Leslie Lamport.
>If you are thinking without writing, you only think you are thinking.
A world where most people stop doing it is a world where most people stop working out their own minds.
Why do I agree with Paul Graham? I am falling to AI myself. I am concerned. If I do not control myself, I will soon go from being an ordinary or average writer to a non-writer. AI-powered writing tools such as Grammarly and QuillBot are addictive and create uncontrolled dependency.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)
2. https://www.paulgraham.com/writes.html
3. https://x.com/paulg/status/2090811541918724552 -
Writing is thinking if not outsourced
Paul Graham [1] made a prediction in 2024 in his essay "Writes and Write-Nots" [2]. In a couple of decades, not many people will be able to write.
>There may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.
That is his claim [3], and he is not wrong.
Attention has been dwindling for years already. Short videos, algorithmic feeds, and now cheap AI drafts have removed both the need and the habit of sitting with anything longer than a page or two. Why struggle with a paragraph when a model can produce one in seconds?
Graham says that writing survived as a mass skill because the world forced it on people. You had to write at school, at work, in life. Once that pressure goes, the middle layer collapses. The okay writers vanish. What remains is a small group who still write because they like thinking on the page, and a much larger group who outsource the work. When you outsource the writing, you outsource the thinking too.
Due to AI almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can get AI to do it for you, in school and at work. The result will be a world divided into writes and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who cannot write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, average writers, and non-writers, there will just be good writers and non-writers.
The reason goes back to what Graham keeps saying.
>Writing is thinking
Nobody can say this better than Leslie Lamport.
>If you are thinking without writing, you only think you are thinking.
A world where most people stop doing it is a world where most people stop working out their own minds.
Why do I agree with Paul Graham? I am falling to AI myself. I am concerned. If I do not control myself, I will soon go from being an ordinary or average writer to a non-writer. AI-powered writing tools such as Grammarly and QuillBot are addictive and create uncontrolled dependency.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)
2. https://www.paulgraham.com/writes.html
3. https://x.com/paulg/status/2090811541918724552 -
Writing is thinking if not outsourced
Paul Graham [1] made a prediction in 2024 in his essay "Writes and Write-Nots" [2]. In a couple of decades, not many people will be able to write.
>There may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.
That is his claim [3], and he is not wrong.
Attention has been dwindling for years already. Short videos, algorithmic feeds, and now cheap AI drafts have removed both the need and the habit of sitting with anything longer than a page or two. Why struggle with a paragraph when a model can produce one in seconds?
Graham says that writing survived as a mass skill because the world forced it on people. You had to write at school, at work, in life. Once that pressure goes, the middle layer collapses. The okay writers vanish. What remains is a small group who still write because they like thinking on the page, and a much larger group who outsource the work. When you outsource the writing, you outsource the thinking too.
Due to AI almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can get AI to do it for you, in school and at work. The result will be a world divided into writes and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who cannot write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, average writers, and non-writers, there will just be good writers and non-writers.
The reason goes back to what Graham keeps saying.
>Writing is thinking
Nobody can say this better than Leslie Lamport.
>If you are thinking without writing, you only think you are thinking.
A world where most people stop doing it is a world where most people stop working out their own minds.
Why do I agree with Paul Graham? I am falling to AI myself. I am concerned. If I do not control myself, I will soon go from being an ordinary or average writer to a non-writer. AI-powered writing tools such as Grammarly and QuillBot are addictive and create uncontrolled dependency.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)
2. https://www.paulgraham.com/writes.html
3. https://x.com/paulg/status/2090811541918724552 -
Writing is thinking if not outsourced
Paul Graham [1] made a prediction in 2024 in his essay "Writes and Write-Nots" [2]. In a couple of decades, not many people will be able to write.
>There may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.
That is his claim [3], and he is not wrong.
Attention has been dwindling for years already. Short videos, algorithmic feeds, and now cheap AI drafts have removed both the need and the habit of sitting with anything longer than a page or two. Why struggle with a paragraph when a model can produce one in seconds?
Graham says that writing survived as a mass skill because the world forced it on people. You had to write at school, at work, in life. Once that pressure goes, the middle layer collapses. The okay writers vanish. What remains is a small group who still write because they like thinking on the page, and a much larger group who outsource the work. When you outsource the writing, you outsource the thinking too.
Due to AI almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can get AI to do it for you, in school and at work. The result will be a world divided into writes and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who cannot write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, average writers, and non-writers, there will just be good writers and non-writers.
The reason goes back to what Graham keeps saying.
>Writing is thinking
Nobody can say this better than Leslie Lamport.
>If you are thinking without writing, you only think you are thinking.
A world where most people stop doing it is a world where most people stop working out their own minds.
Why do I agree with Paul Graham? I am falling to AI myself. I am concerned. If I do not control myself, I will soon go from being an ordinary or average writer to a non-writer. AI-powered writing tools such as Grammarly and QuillBot are addictive and create uncontrolled dependency.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)
2. https://www.paulgraham.com/writes.html
3. https://x.com/paulg/status/2090811541918724552 -
Writing is thinking if not outsourced
Paul Graham [1] made a prediction in 2024 in his essay "Writes and Write-Nots" [2]. In a couple of decades, not many people will be able to write.
>There may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.
That is his claim [3], and he is not wrong.
Attention has been dwindling for years already. Short videos, algorithmic feeds, and now cheap AI drafts have removed both the need and the habit of sitting with anything longer than a page or two. Why struggle with a paragraph when a model can produce one in seconds?
Graham says that writing survived as a mass skill because the world forced it on people. You had to write at school, at work, in life. Once that pressure goes, the middle layer collapses. The okay writers vanish. What remains is a small group who still write because they like thinking on the page, and a much larger group who outsource the work. When you outsource the writing, you outsource the thinking too.
Due to AI almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can get AI to do it for you, in school and at work. The result will be a world divided into writes and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who cannot write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, average writers, and non-writers, there will just be good writers and non-writers.
The reason goes back to what Graham keeps saying.
>Writing is thinking
Nobody can say this better than Leslie Lamport.
>If you are thinking without writing, you only think you are thinking.
A world where most people stop doing it is a world where most people stop working out their own minds.
Why do I agree with Paul Graham? I am falling to AI myself. I am concerned. If I do not control myself, I will soon go from being an ordinary or average writer to a non-writer. AI-powered writing tools such as Grammarly and QuillBot are addictive and create uncontrolled dependency.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)
2. https://www.paulgraham.com/writes.html
3. https://x.com/paulg/status/2090811541918724552