I warn you now, this is going to have unfortunate consequences, just as switching to living in suburbia and driving everywhere did. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) May 9, 2023
I wrote a few paragraphs disagreeing with Paul’s take, asserting that, like Simon suggests, we should think of language models like ChatGPT as a “calculator for words”.