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AI As High-Powered Autocomplete
- ChatGPT is a rhetorically flexible auto-complete that produces coherent text but often lacks true understanding.
- Evan warns that outsourcing writing risks living by others' language and losing self-knowledge.
Boxes Of Bad School Essays
- Evan found his childhood school essays torturous and uninterested in writing.
- He notes ChatGPT writes far better than his teenage self, highlighting a risk for student writing.
Writing Shapes Self-Knowledge
- Writing structures chaotic thought into clearer language and enables self-understanding.
- Evan credits Emerson for showing that language shapes the human mind and personal identity.