Tenobrus @tenobrus
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Tenobrus @tenobrus · 26m am i a better writer than scott alexander? no. i never will be. i won't come close. that's okay though, i have fun with what i do. and there aren't infinite scott alexander articles. he doesn't write about everything, and even when he does write about things ive talked about too he doesn't necessarily talk about the exact angles i may have interest in or some aspect of expertise he doesn't. but how well does that hold up if / when model intelligence and writing quality noticeably surpasses scott alexander, quickly and on demand, on any topic and sub-niche? do i still bother writing 10 paragraph long tweets explaining my thoughts on an issue? probably. i'm pretty addicted to it. but it's a lot harder for me to feel certain it will retain the same sense of value it has now. when the connective web gets filled in, all the points of interpolation, to higher quality? there's almost no code that's worth writing by hand anymore. i used to love writing code, both at work and in my free time. but for the most part it just feels kind of silly now. i can imagine i'll probably do it again, as a personal exercise, but the fact that there is just deeply and truly no chance that anyone else will ever benefit from it, no chance that any skills developed are transferable to something useful or general, it does take something away. not everything, but something. maybe this all means i was just never a real lover of code or lover of writing. maybe it's a me problem. but somehow i don't think so. we're social animals, and while it's always been true that there's *someone* out there who's better at any arbitrary skill or quality u hold dear, it *hasnt* been true that there's always someone *locally* better. and i think that shift is [cut off]
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Tweet by @tenobrus reflecting on whether AI writing/coding capability surpassing his own will erode the personal value of writing and coding as activities. Continues into the next screenshot.