Post #4171050
2026-07-28 10:54 UTC
I have *lots* of experience defending my word choices, and not just against the mechanical judgments of a high-handed spellchecker, but also against overreaching copyeditors and paranoid publisher's lawyers. I *know* which words I want to write, and I know *why* I want to write them - and I know when a suggested fix is a good one and when it's wrong or stupid or just plain clunky. When it comes to writing, I have discernment.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-28 10:55
That's not true when it comes to higher math. I would no more ask a chatbot to explain "the Jacobian conjecture counterexample" than I would tell my writing students to get a chatbot to suggest ways to fix their stories: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/#hold-the-gravel I don't know nearly enough about math to ask a chatbot to explain it, or check my work, or even assemble a bibliography of human-authored works I should work my way through if I want to learn about it. 17/