Interesting article. I just realized something reading what you wrote. I've been an author since my late 20's (w/a few bestsellers) and I'm now 65. In those many decades of being an author my mind got trained as I wrote a book to analyze what is/isn't working in my manuscript, to scan the manuscript to look for what feels off, what I need to edit out. Plus my mind strived to think of something innovative to say, not just accept the first thing that popped into my mind and onto the page.. I'd scan my brain (and the manuscript) for more interesting ways to see things and say things. In an odd way what I was doing with my own human writing - is something we a;; need to do when.we get output from AI - and not just lazily accept what it spits out at us. It's also why I hate/resent AI writing - I love the joy of writing things myself - the process my brain goes through to write something is a rewarding/exciting process. Plus what you wrote about here also reminded me of the Dunning-Kruger Effect a little - which I wrote about here - curious to hear your thoughts... https://notsalmon.substack.com/p/why-idiots-are-often-confident-and
Beautiful article. The Dmitri section is where it gets most interesting. The impulse to explain why people like Dmitri exist misses something. Everything in nature has a purpose. Dmitri showed up in your life precisely to teach you something you needed to learn, most likely how to navigate overconfidence without losing your own clarity. The lesson arrived in the right form. The question isn't why Dmitri exists. It's what the encounter was there to teach.
Interesting article. I just realized something reading what you wrote. I've been an author since my late 20's (w/a few bestsellers) and I'm now 65. In those many decades of being an author my mind got trained as I wrote a book to analyze what is/isn't working in my manuscript, to scan the manuscript to look for what feels off, what I need to edit out. Plus my mind strived to think of something innovative to say, not just accept the first thing that popped into my mind and onto the page.. I'd scan my brain (and the manuscript) for more interesting ways to see things and say things. In an odd way what I was doing with my own human writing - is something we a;; need to do when.we get output from AI - and not just lazily accept what it spits out at us. It's also why I hate/resent AI writing - I love the joy of writing things myself - the process my brain goes through to write something is a rewarding/exciting process. Plus what you wrote about here also reminded me of the Dunning-Kruger Effect a little - which I wrote about here - curious to hear your thoughts... https://notsalmon.substack.com/p/why-idiots-are-often-confident-and
Beautiful article. The Dmitri section is where it gets most interesting. The impulse to explain why people like Dmitri exist misses something. Everything in nature has a purpose. Dmitri showed up in your life precisely to teach you something you needed to learn, most likely how to navigate overconfidence without losing your own clarity. The lesson arrived in the right form. The question isn't why Dmitri exists. It's what the encounter was there to teach.