iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

2. Often, in reading books, reports or academic papers, I'll stumble across something far more interesting than the thing I thought I was exploring. And I’ll come to understand the deep background and context far better than if I allowed a machine to do some of the work.

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Nick Langley @nicklangley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Lateral reading. Via the notes and bibliography you discover a book you've never heard of. And via that one, others.

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Kate Walters @katewaltersartist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Yes! I always follow the unexpected and the references … it’s about being open, an explorer…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

3. B. As Naomi Klein remarks, our kind of journalism consists of pattern recognition. The patterns I recognise might be completely different from the patterns you recognise. Sometimes I read something that triggers a memory from 30 years ago, in a completely unrelated field.

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aekay.bsky.social @aekay.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Yes, this!

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