> Why does me writing "apt apt apt apt apt apt apt" help me think about the world?
replyPoor example. You wrote it to make a point, after all.
Yes, but not to understand or think about the world. In this case, writing was to express something, not to understand something. The overall point is that claiming that "human writing = human thinking" is too broad a general statement to make seriously.
reply> The overall point is that claiming that "human writing = human thinking" is too broad a general statement to make seriously.
replyDo you have any non-contrived example of writing that was done with zero thought?
You wrote "apt apt apt apt apt apt" to prove a very specific point no? Absolutely requires reasoning and understanding the problem to go there. And good luck getting an LLM to do that.
reply> And good luck getting an LLM to do that.
replyHave you never asked a decent model to explain something to you? You should try it.
Yes, I wrote it to prove that writing doesn't mean I understand the world. It responds to "writing helps you understand the world." My point was that, yes, of course you can find categories within it that apply, which is why the answer is not fundamentally incorrect. Claiming "writing = thinking" in a general sense is very broad, and that's my point.
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