“The impact of an essay is how much it changes readers’ thinking multiplied by the importance of the topic. But it’s hard to do well at both. It’s hard to have big new ideas about important topics. So in practice there’s a tradeoff: you can change readers’ thinking a lot about moderately important things, or change it a little about very important ones. But with younger readers the tradeoff shifts. There’s more room to change their thinking, so there’s a bigger payoff for writing about important things.”
“Chefs have not been anywhere near as quick to ask the bots’ help in dreaming up fresh ideas, even as visual artists, musicians, writers and other creative types have been busily collaborating with the technology.”
“If you strip training down to its bare essentials, these results suggest to me that there are two separate parameters that really matter: how long and how hard. And for now, I’m not convinced that we have any measuring tools that are significantly better than a stopwatch and an honest answer to the question ‘How did that feel?’”
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