Substack notes just went live. I don't know how this thing works or its use. I don't even know if someone will be reading this. For now, I'll use this as a platform to give some behind the scenes on ideas & the writing process at decentralised.co

One of the things I have been thinking of is editing in the age of ChatGPT. It is a pretty powerful tool. You blurt out a bunch of text into a box, and it fixes up the grammar for you. For someone like me, it is a god sent. Anybody that reads my writing understands I struggle with grammar.

But I have my bits of scepticism. I reason that all great art, much like people, is flawed. Take a bit of text from your favourite author. Now run it through your preferred grammar tool. And you will see how flawed the machine thinks the wall of text is. But good art - be it in writing, drawings or songs, evokes emotion. And when captured by emotion, people likely see the grammatical errors as a feature and not a bug.

My point is if everyone "fixed" their grammar through AI, we would likely create art that is devoid of tone & personality. And when given a choice between perfection and inspiring action, I'd rather choose the latter. I don't quite know where I'm going, but what i concluded is that good, human-written writing will forever have flaws. Much like the people that write them. And maybe, humans will prefer the flawed content among content streams with perfect content generated (and curated) by machines.

Don't worry - I won't be posting philosophy all day long here. I just wanted to get something cringe out, so I can get past the bug of wanting something "perfect" to post for my first notes.