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Reader-Generated Essays - by Henrik Karlsson

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An essay is made up of two layers: the ideas, and the language in which they are expressed. The story of Red Riding Hood, and the words of a particular retelling of that story. The idea of ​​a fully programmable blockchain, and the language that Vitalik Buterin used to carry that idea in the Etheruem White Paper. Thinking and communicating are two separate processes, even if they often happen at the same time. And both make great demands on your mental faculties: often I do not have enough capacity to cope with writing and thinking at the same time; the thoughts suffer when I wrestle with the language, and vice versa. If I am exploring a complex set of ideas, it is, therefore, often necessary to give structure to the thoughts first – in the form of notes and diagrams – before turning them into an essay. I formulate the ideas. And then I communicate them. GPT-3, announced in May 2020 by OpenAI, is a neural net modeling of natural language and natural-language-related tasks. It can, with

An essay is made up of two layers: the ideas, and the language in which they are expressed. The story of Red Riding Hood, and the words of a particular retelling of that story. The idea of ​​a fully programmable blockchain, and the language that Vitalik Buterin used to carry that idea in the Ethereum White Paper. Thinking and communicating are two separate processes, even if they often happen at the same time. And both make great demands on your mental faculties: often I do not have enough capacity to cope with writing and thinking at the same time; the thoughts suffer when I wrestle with…

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