Linkdump: Interesting Things I Looked At (Very) Recently (2025-08-12)
Most of these are from today, but some are from yesterday, and a few are from last week. The descriptions will be short, since I am short on time.
Getting to the End of the Thought; or, Why Write in the Age of AI?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of writing recently, especially in regard to how it’s been influenced by the advent of generative AI. In the past few months, I’ve had a lot of conversations in which people claimed that generative AI is just as good at writing as humans now, or better, in many cases. While I agree that AI generation tools are, at this point, better at the mechanics of writing than the average person, I have always found their outputs to be shallow and devoid of interesting surprises.