This is a continuation of the conversation I had with Maggie previously: "The Dark Forest and Generative AI." We discuss why we write, versus why to use AI and LLMs to produce writing.

Discussed in this episode:

• Why do humans write?
• Writing is around 5,000 years old
• Writing to our future selves
• How do we read?
• Science and philosophy as conversations
• On getting up to speed in conversation
• How much to read before we should write
• Who wants to read GPT outputs?
• Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author" (1967)
• The deep link between cognition, action, perception
• The 4Es: embodied, embedded, enacted, extended (see: enactivism)
• Moravec's paradox
• Gwern

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