yes—my writing tends to start out as a loose collection of thoughts/ ponderings that i then try to flesh out more clearly of what i’m trying to get at, and to draw a clearly through line in my logic. i don’t think there is anything wrong using assistance as long as the core ideas/ arguments aren’t being artificially generated—i do not do this. to be fair, i assume a loose collection of thoughts would not be well received given what i’ve seen posted here but i can test that out and see if what i have to say is received any better.
I think you should practice turning your loose collections of thoughts into more of a standard essay format. That is an important skill. You should try to develop that skill. (If you don’t know how to do that, try looking for online writing courses or MOOCs. There are probably some free ones out there.)
One problem with using an LLM to do this for you is that it’s easy to detect, and many people find that distasteful. Whether it’s fully or partially generated by an LLM, people don’t want to read it.
Another problem with using an LLM is you’re not really thinking or communicating. The act of writing is not something that should be automated. If you think it should be automated, then don’t post on the EA Forum and wait for humans to respond to you, just paste your post into ChatGPT and get its opinion. (If you don’t want to do that, then you also understand why people don’t want you to post LLM-generated stuff on here, either.)
case in point: you urging that i fall back on convention (“standard essay format”) to conform to this community. in fact, it’s precisely why i even used the llm in the first place.
why is it that a raw, unrefined post albeit able to make a clear argument, cite sources, etc should be rejected because of formatting? it would appear optics are more important than ideas, no?
If the post is able to make a clear argument, that’s almost all that matters. If you think your loose collections of thoughts do make a clear argument, then that might be sufficient for an EA Forum post. Why I recommended “more of a standard essay format” is that this tends to be what makes an argument clear to the people reading.
The ideas are important, but communicating your ideas so that people can easily understand them is also important. You need both for a good essay, article, or blog, or for a good EA Forum post.
yes—my writing tends to start out as a loose collection of thoughts/ ponderings that i then try to flesh out more clearly of what i’m trying to get at, and to draw a clearly through line in my logic. i don’t think there is anything wrong using assistance as long as the core ideas/ arguments aren’t being artificially generated—i do not do this. to be fair, i assume a loose collection of thoughts would not be well received given what i’ve seen posted here but i can test that out and see if what i have to say is received any better.
I think you should practice turning your loose collections of thoughts into more of a standard essay format. That is an important skill. You should try to develop that skill. (If you don’t know how to do that, try looking for online writing courses or MOOCs. There are probably some free ones out there.)
One problem with using an LLM to do this for you is that it’s easy to detect, and many people find that distasteful. Whether it’s fully or partially generated by an LLM, people don’t want to read it.
Another problem with using an LLM is you’re not really thinking or communicating. The act of writing is not something that should be automated. If you think it should be automated, then don’t post on the EA Forum and wait for humans to respond to you, just paste your post into ChatGPT and get its opinion. (If you don’t want to do that, then you also understand why people don’t want you to post LLM-generated stuff on here, either.)
case in point: you urging that i fall back on convention (“standard essay format”) to conform to this community. in fact, it’s precisely why i even used the llm in the first place.
why is it that a raw, unrefined post albeit able to make a clear argument, cite sources, etc should be rejected because of formatting? it would appear optics are more important than ideas, no?
If the post is able to make a clear argument, that’s almost all that matters. If you think your loose collections of thoughts do make a clear argument, then that might be sufficient for an EA Forum post. Why I recommended “more of a standard essay format” is that this tends to be what makes an argument clear to the people reading.
The ideas are important, but communicating your ideas so that people can easily understand them is also important. You need both for a good essay, article, or blog, or for a good EA Forum post.