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Text inputs have no affordances
When I go up the mountain to ask the ChatGPT oracle a question, I am met with a blank face. What does this oracle know? How should I ask my question? And when it responds, it is endlessly confident. I can't tell whether or not it actually understand my question or where this information came from.
**Good tools make it clear how they should be used.** And more importantly, how they should *not* be used.
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
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With more education, more and more people want to be published. More want to be published than want to read. “I need you to hear me, more than I need to hear you.” […] Not even poets want to read poetry, unless they are required to do so in order to see their own work published.
So Many Books
Gabriel Zaid and Natasha Wimmer
It's hard for me to overemphasize how how central this is. Like, every day that I program I use this, right? It is one of the key things that keeps me sane. Like, you can make lots of other features of the language away from me but like with my last dying breath I will keep my exhaustiveness checks.
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