Oliver ReichensteinDealing with ChatGPT, I have an increasingly clear idea of how l need and want to write. It's as if *real writing* required *artificial writing* to become a solid notion. Or maybe it's along what Baudrillard said about Disney Land: it exists to make us believe that society is real. (Quoted from memory). ChatGPT made me think about the difference between real and simulated understanding. Still, I get an increasingly clear idea of what #writing needs to be. Never saw it in such strong light.
Let me try to put the idea into words: To me, writing has to be done so carefully that we feel and mean every word we express. We do not ever want to waste people's time with vague rambles or clever lies. Writing needs to be as short as possible but not shorter. And while writing is painful, especially at the beginning, when the thought is delicate and not yet clear enough, if ever possible, writing needs to be done with humor, it cannot be completed without us enjoying it either.
Moritz Zimmer@reichenstein Interesting thoughts. Thanks. My grain of salt; keeping writing as short as possible ist — IMHO — a very western and Protestant take. If you look at Buddhist writing, that needs a lot of mind beding for "us", ... it's all about repetition. Repetition for the sake of accent, repetition for the sake of plurality, repetition for the sake of memory, repetition for the sake of identification, repetition for the sake of ... the sake?
@moritzz As short as possible, but not shorter. Repetition can be a wonderful rhetoric device. To quote Buddha:
“All that we are is defined by our thoughts: it begins where our thoughts begin, it moves where our thoughts move, and it rests where our thoughts rest.”
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@reichenstein Very nice example. Thanks for quoting it. After writing my not so musical example, I thought; think about music (lyrics). It's all about – repetition!