That last point that “thinking precedes language” is great, and deeply tied to the fact (I’d argue) that language (and thinking) is embodied

Am I losing developed resilience by not working through that friction? I could be. However, as a father of a toddler with a 3-4 teaching load, chatbots have helped me to submit a successful grant application I otherwise probably wouldn’t have written.

4/4

I don’t see chatbots (in this instance) very differently than other accessibility tools. They help me communicate by reducing friction in the work.

3/4

1. I’m an external processor, I do my best thinking when interfacing with something outside of my own mind

2. I’ve always had a hard time initializing writing, generative AI takes my unstructured thoughts and turns it into a (typically) bad first draft. Then I edit! It works well for me.

2/4

I appreciate your posts and your skepticism, it challenges me frequently in how much I enjoy generative text, specifically. Having thought a lot about it, there are two main reasons I want to do “that”:

1/4

You didn’t finish your last sentence:

— which is terrifying.

This is a completely tangential question but did you screen for people (like me) with aphantasia?

If you tell me to imagine a rotating circle, I “can”, but it’s not visual. Curious what differences you’d find

Not neuroimaging data, but for the motion capture system I used at Northeastern we used something like this — I liked it a lot and would use it again

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I’ve messed with fonts way too much and landed on Ubuntu being a font I really love

What a fire quote 🤣