Reader-Generated Essays - by Henrik Olof Karlsson
escapingflatland.substack.com · 1,817 words · saved by 1 readers
An essay is made up of two layers: the ideas, and the language in which they are expressed.
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…
related reading
- Reader-generated Essays — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Reader-Generated Essayshenrikkarlsson.xyz
- trees are harlequins, words are harlequins - the voidnostalgebraist.tumblr.com
- The Dark Forest and Generative AImaggieappleton.com
- The Human Skill That Eludes AI - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
- How AI Is Learning to Think in Secretnickandresen.substack.com
- the post-literate societyjasmi.news
- Human Routers of Machine Wordsborretti.me
- The Unintelligibility is Ours: Notes on Chain of Thought1a3orn.com
- 32 notes on AI & writingjasmi.news
- Using GPT-3 to augment human intelligencehenrikkarlsson.xyz
- Babel | Meghan O’Gieblynnplusonemag.com