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Learning to draw is fundamentally linked to creativity. These are direct connections to thoughts, which are action-syntax. (btw lack of uniformity is on display even in these very young sketchers)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187118712...

While the use of words to be creative is lessening as an indication of direct access to the imagination. As prompts for creativity, the sciences increasingly tell us this is fundamentally impairing.

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024

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It doesn't matter. When I need to insert a screw I don't stick to a screwdriver because it gives me more exercise, I use a drill, because I can and I have access to one, and that's all there is to it. Any time you find yourself justifying people use a less powerful tool for a job you are probably in the wrong...

Not a valid analogy. Screwdriving is semantic episodic memory, drawing is working memory interacting with senses and emotions.

Tool use isnt reducible the way youre describing and it’s probably how engineers conflate basic tool use with complex tool and precision idiosyncratic dexterity. They have no relation.

while you are making up connections in your mind I made revisions for designs for a business using nano banana 10x in the same hour the logo designer i contacted told me he would only be available in december. i don't get what you are fighting for? a slower, less resourceful people?

Wax fruit vs. creative design? We make neural-syntax animation pre-viz for a blockbuster series on streaming, and never have to touch slop. Hand drawn storyboards, Rhino, Maya and 3dMax, to blender to unreal and never veer automation. We can never let LLMs touch it because what we're making has never been done prior, the spaces are referential. And it never can reference space. What I've seen demo'd (and I've inspected closed models using our library of isovist level architech) is worthless compared to wetware.

is this ai generated? i literally don't know most of the words in this post...

Generated? It’s just beyond your stage of creativity. Nothing we get near is generated.

The irony, work that exceeds Ai would appear to people trapped by it to be generated.

What does that say about the state of thinking in engineers and business?

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