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'Writing is thinking' has become a bit of an anti-AI slogan, but it's true. Here's what it means: One of my clients is preparing a research proposal for a PhD program in theology, and she's got an array of interests (ontology, humanoid robots, Hannah Arendt, etc.) that in her
Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
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@gideonrachman @OliverKamm Forget the standing ovations at Davos—you should have heard the cheers from Canada’s foodbanks!
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Much appreciated, William!
Every day Aaron delivers a masterclass in non-argumentative arguing. He holds a polarizing position—that children are agents (!)—but engages critics with patience, light-hearted resolve, and genuine respect. Polite warrior energy. A gardener in a war—but in a good way.
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@astupple Here in South Korea I met a mother who recently started sending her child to half day kindergarten at a public school, and I asked what they were learning about. She told me he came home with a drawing they had him color of Dok-do—a fiercely contested island between Korea and
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Every day Aaron delivers a masterclass in non-argumentative arguing. He holds a polarizing position—that children are agents (!)—but engages critics with patience, light-hearted resolve, and genuine respect. Polite warrior energy. A gardener in a war—but in a good way.
If you want to teach your kids physics, you'd start with physics. You wouldn't start with alchemy and then switch to physics when they're ready. So why do the liberty people start their kids with authoritarianism, and then introduce liberty "when they're ready." (It's even
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@de5imulate @tomwarren (This is my lab report)
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@waronweakness Yep it's great advice, here's why it works from the reader's perspective:
Naval Ravikant is a master communicator. He’s built a massive audience across the web by distilling complex ideas into simple, potent phrases. His secret? A 250-word blog post by Scott Adams that he keeps open every time he writes. Here are 6 lessons that transformed Naval’s
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@david_perell re: 1) Valuable writing isn't about expressing what one thinks, regardless of whether those ideas are new; it's about changing what readers think. A new idea is valuable only insofar as it replaces an old idea that poses some problem for the reader. Problems—not novelty—are what
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@astupple I read that as the basic existentialist, Darwinist point: life has no inherent meaning, so any meaning you find was put there by you. The alternative is teleology. Delusion is probably the word that sets people off here, but it’s literally a false belief about the world.
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@ben_m_somers @eduleadership Incentives matter. When the negative feedback comes from those with a vested interest in your being wrong, and the positive signals come from their dissatisfied customers—the students and their parents—keep going.
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@WriterScience yes but mostly addressing generative slop w this tweet
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@Charles22313614 @TheCinesthetic The protagonist is Sheriff Bell
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