That's a fraught question. First, editors need not have been writers before they became
editors. But barring that, my answer would be "No". But they prolly *do* lose
facility for writing, the ease with which they write. It's simple reinforcement. Use it
or lose it.
E.g. I can still code in Ada. But I'm way worse at it now than I was when I did
it multiple days per week. A better question might be: Do editors lose their
ability to read? And that question bears an even deeper problem ... something
akin to Gell-Mann amnesia ... and I blame it for me losing my taste for reading
for *fun*. Up until ~1998 or so, I did a lot of reading for fun. It was fun to
read. Now reading is merely a means to some other end. Make something your job
and it ceases to be a hobby. So even if editors retain their ability to read,
the *quality* of their reading must change in deep ways.
On 2/11/25 6:57 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Do editors lose the ability to write?
On Feb 11, 2025, at 6:43 AM, glen <[email protected]> wrote:
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in
Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
It really doesn't seem that different to me from numerical analysis. It shifts
the work from doing the computing to declaring what the computing should do.
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