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I’ve also really enjoyed having AI assisted comprehension in tackling difficult books, such as last month’s book-club pick, Frances Yates’ Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. And it didn’t feel like a simple case of “thinking through writing.” There’s stuff in here contributed by ChatGPT that Ididn’t know or realize even subconsciously, even though I’ve been consulting for 13 years in the semiconductor industry. Turns out a natural pattern for being an AI-assisted writer (for the next 3 months at least) is to write building-block essays with AI help, and then glue them together with artisanal unassisted ones, as I’m doing here.

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