Interesting points. I think the specific advice here is particularly useful for eliminating mistake in expression. That is, to ensure that your reader is receiving from the page the impression you are intending him to, and that you are actually communicating what you think you are. I suppose that is quite precisely what you intend to assist with when noting that this advice is aimed at fulfilling your posited 2nd objective in writing well.
However, I can’t help but feel there is a bit of a leap occuring within this article, between the intro and the provision of advice. Not that the advice is not highly useful, or that following it would not lead to this desired objective of better writing (I personally think point (1) from your less-specific advice to be a crucial directive), but the listed advice seems to assume not only that one has a thought, but also that one’s thought has at least some kind of expressable form.
I think there are, or at least it is useful to conceive of there being, quite a few steps between the formation of a thought and its realization in an expressable language. In a way, all of our expressions are imperfect representations of our internal ideas that have come about as a function of our learned process in transforming intuitions and tendencies into words and phrases. I think, therefore, that perhaps the most crucial steps in ‘good writing’ do not occur close to the final stages of the realization, where we are re-configuring our expressions, choosing between essentially analogous (to us) expressions to ensure we squash potential misinterpretations. Instead, these most crucial steps are likely in the more sub-conscious, primary stages, where we make the most foundational decisions about our expression, before we even have any potential wording of it before us for consideration for alteration.
One could perhaps subsume all of this into step (1) as all part of the thought-forming process. But that, I think, would be to pile in the initial formation of an idea with our formation of how we can express it, which are intuitively different functions.
Not to say this leap is any real issue with this post, of course. I wonder what you think about the need to analyse and find improvement mechanisms for these intermediate stages between thoughts and concreted forms of expression (writing).
I think you may have missed my point here. I was not principally talking about the threat posed by AI to existing industries and commercial ventures such as the production of pornographic literature. My point was to highlight that AI could bring on voluntary social atomization as in, for example, “WALL-E”. The protagonist of the story becomes frustrated by and uninterested in his friends because he cannot order them around on a whim like he can chatGPT, nor can they converse on any topic of his choosing.
Once given a taste of something sweeter and richer, it is hard to return to our previous gruel. Our expectations have been ever raised, and AI in a social function could raise our expectations of social satisfaction to levels that cannot be met by other people, and even if they could, will not (as to do so, to compete with the AI for your attention, would require their extreme focus on pleasing you, forgoing their own enjoyment).