I don’t think AI is killing writing, but I do think it’s wounding our pride. The reaction fascinates me: equal parts awe, insecurity, and prophecy. This poem lives in that tension — between tool and identity, speed and meaning.
Browsing Category Science & Technology
Essays on science, technology, design, and how both quietly shape modern human life. These posts explore scientific thinking, unintended consequences, and the uneasy relationship between innovation, psychology, and culture.
I’m Supposed to Care If You Used AI to Write That? |
The Day Clarity Turned into Suspicion
Writers everywhere (especially on social media) insist they can identify AI writing immediately. That we recognize it by its clarity, structure, and polish. But haven’t those always been the hallmarks of competent prose. This essay explores the panic over AI and how it says more about our myths around writing than it does about the writing itself.
The Cat—Who Was and Wasn’t—In the Hat |
Or: Why Can't Reality Just Behave Already?
Quantum physics is strange, slippery, and famously unintuitive. I wondered how Dr. Seuss would explain it. Let’s explore particles, waves, and Schrödinger’s cat through memorable rhyme and playful whimsy, so see if we can explain why reality refuses to behave itself.