Writing as a thinking tool
The gist
Distributed-systems blogger Murat argues writing externalizes thought and is now a comparative advantage as LLMs spread.
The claim is contested as schools report weaker writing and universities pilot AI-detection tools.
How it unfolded
- 1980Educator James Britton hypothesized that we discover what we think in the act of writing; the source says his suppositions never amounted to proof and later studies were limited or inconclusive.
- Late 80sThe blog author, then in middle school in Turkey, began taking notes out of desperation and produced pages of mind maps after Tony Buzan's mind maps reached Turkey.
- 2018The author wrote a quick post on anatomical similarities between Paxos and Nakamoto consensus, which became the seed for one of his research papers.
Key terms
- LLMs
- A machine learning model trained on huge amounts of text to generate, summarize, translate, and analyze language.
- out-of-core execution
- A computing technique for processing data too large to fit in main memory by efficiently accessing slower bulk storage.
- Paxos
- A family of computer science protocols for reaching consensus among unreliable or fallible processors in a network.
Source: Wikipedia