A lovely photo. I am one of the last people on earth who actually write letters.
The mailbox used to be a point of connection, a source of more than bills and empty flyers. We might expect party invitations, baby announcements, word from a soldier overseas, the occasional small package, even love letters. There was always a sense of anticipation (sometimes dread, when a loved one was at war).
Now, of course, climbers text from Everest.
But a letter allows the writer to take his or her time, in order to express something deeply felt. It is profoundly personal where the internet is often the opposite, valued for the anonymity it affords.
AI now offers to assume, i.e. dehumanize, the task of writing altogether…as if writing were a burden.
Not everyone, of course, enjoys writing as I do. But searching for the right word is intimately connected w/ understanding exactly how precisely we feel and what precisely we think about a certain person or subject. It necessarily requires thought. That is not something we should delegate to a machine programmed by someone else, no matter how “intelligent” it is claimed to be.
I hadn’t realised AI would further devalue the need for writing. To write your thoughts and to articulate ideas is a most human act. We are certainly moving to a place we have never been before in history.
Letter writing is something else of course – perhaps associated with hand writing and type writers. In the context of this meme I think obvious interpretation would be the relentless up selling and endless flyers – to the point of overflow. But a deeper meaning might be how easily nature overpowers our trivial world 🤔 Thank you for your penetrating thoughts Anna.
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A lovely photo. I am one of the last people on earth who actually write letters.
The mailbox used to be a point of connection, a source of more than bills and empty flyers. We might expect party invitations, baby announcements, word from a soldier overseas, the occasional small package, even love letters. There was always a sense of anticipation (sometimes dread, when a loved one was at war).
Now, of course, climbers text from Everest.
But a letter allows the writer to take his or her time, in order to express something deeply felt. It is profoundly personal where the internet is often the opposite, valued for the anonymity it affords.
AI now offers to assume, i.e. dehumanize, the task of writing altogether…as if writing were a burden.
Not everyone, of course, enjoys writing as I do. But searching for the right word is intimately connected w/ understanding exactly how precisely we feel and what precisely we think about a certain person or subject. It necessarily requires thought. That is not something we should delegate to a machine programmed by someone else, no matter how “intelligent” it is claimed to be.
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I hadn’t realised AI would further devalue the need for writing. To write your thoughts and to articulate ideas is a most human act. We are certainly moving to a place we have never been before in history.
Letter writing is something else of course – perhaps associated with hand writing and type writers. In the context of this meme I think obvious interpretation would be the relentless up selling and endless flyers – to the point of overflow. But a deeper meaning might be how easily nature overpowers our trivial world 🤔 Thank you for your penetrating thoughts Anna.
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