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Curt Jaimungal: I'm Worried About Us
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Curt Jaimungal argues writing reveals something deeper than output—what LLMs expose about human purpose.Curt Jaimungal argues that in an age where LLMs can produce beautiful prose on demand, we've discovered that output was always just a proxy for something deeper — understanding you can't outsource, especially on the questions that actually matter: death, meaning, identity, morality. Shallowness now wears the robe of eloquence.
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- 00:00 - You Can't Vibe Your Way to Understanding
- 02:22 - Shallowness Now Wears the Robe of Eloquence
- 04:09 - Why We Never Knew Output Was a Proxy
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- Why Write [Article]: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/why-write
- 3 Rules of Writing [Article]: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/my-3-rules-of-writing
- One Push Up [Article]: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/this-may-be-one-of-the-most-important
- The Most Terrifying Philosopher Encounter I've Encountered [TOE]: https://youtu.be/BWYxRM__TBU
- The Abused Theorem in Math [TOE]: https://youtu.be/OH-ybecvuEo
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