Communicating ideas to another mind is what exposes them as ill-posed
math_rachel · x · 2026-10-28
Part 2 of Rachel Thomas' thread quoting zetalyrae: "The process of communicating your ideas to another mind forces you to concretize them, make them precise, clarify your assumptions... and there you realize these ideas that seemed so solid are ill-posed or contradictory or incomplete." Reinforces the thread's writing-as-thinking argument.
Related event: 'Writing Is Thinking': Thread Challenges 'Ideas Mine, AI Writes' Mindset(4 posts)→
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