Pedro Domingos: Outsource your writing and you outsource your thinking
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-19
AI researcher Pedro Domingos quoted computational neuroscientist Jascha Achterberg: "Writing is thinking. If you outsource your writing, you outsource your thinking." A pointed critique of the common practice of delegating writing to LLMs — the argument being that offloading the prose means offloading the thinking itself.
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