When you’re performing how righteous you are—and how wrong the bad person is—the viciousness is the point.
J. W. Traphagan is a Professor in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas, Austin. His most recent book is Embracing Uncertainty: Future Jazz, That 13th Century Buddhist Monk, and the Invention of Cultures.
Researchers facing pressure from higher education administrators and publishers are using OpenAI to write their papers. This will produce worse work, and lots more of it.
How will modern readers know the good, the bad, and the ugly of the past’s authors and prose if we won’t let them read it?
Age and experience don’t necessarily mean we have unique insights into a completely different world than the one in which we grew up.
You will lose followers, your beliefs will be challenged, but you may just improve society along the way.