Paul Graham makes a strong case for why we should keep writing
I have argued that using quite a bit of AI assistance for writing is probably fine, then I changed my mind – now Paul Graham has a good argument that this was a good call.
Writing is difficult, he argues, but except to plagarize or pay other people to write for you there wasn't a way around it.
Not anymore. AI has blown this world open. Almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can have AI do it for you, both in school and at work.
The result will be a world divided into writes and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write. Some of us like it. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who can't write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can't write, there will just be good writers and people who can't write.
This is a problem:
Yes, it's bad. The reason is something I mentioned earlier: writing is thinking. In fact there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.