Yeah, that’s good point. I was modeling stratifications of lay-usage I’m aware of; treating ChatGPT like a prose dispenser. But if I were to write a second edition of this post, I would include your point.
I think people know to turn AI’s generative capabilities towards selection (ie, “edit this”). What you’ve described seems like: instead of turning AI’s capability towards selection execution, its towards the selection process, (think, “working in the business” vs “working on the business”; the ‘business’ here is ‘improving the writing’). Ie, you let the AI help you gain taste for what you even mean to say, and what you think is worth elaborating on or pruning away.
In any case, I think that builds naturally on the generation/selection framework established in this essay.
Yeah, that’s good point. I was modeling stratifications of lay-usage I’m aware of; treating ChatGPT like a prose dispenser. But if I were to write a second edition of this post, I would include your point.
I think people know to turn AI’s generative capabilities towards selection (ie, “edit this”). What you’ve described seems like: instead of turning AI’s capability towards selection execution, its towards the selection process, (think, “working in the business” vs “working on the business”; the ‘business’ here is ‘improving the writing’). Ie, you let the AI help you gain taste for what you even mean to say, and what you think is worth elaborating on or pruning away.
In any case, I think that builds naturally on the generation/selection framework established in this essay.