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Ben Borgers · 1mo · discuss

There are many reasons to write by hand, instead of using AI. A classic reason is that writing is thinking — in other words that if you're not writing, you're not clearly thinking. But here's another reason: when you write with AI, you're trying on thoughts and seeing what fits "close enough". You give AI a jumble of thoughts, and ask it to polish and put things together. Since all transformations of text are lossy, some things change. A tone shift here, an idea inserted there, an emphasis smoothed out. You read it and you don't like it. You ask...