The author's workflow sounds like writing ideas onto a block of post-its and then having them slosh around like they're boats lashed up at harbour. He wasn't actually gaining any new information - nothing that really surprised him - he was just offloading the inherent fluidity of half-formed ideas to a device which reified them.
Imagine an LLM-based application which never tells you anything you haven't already told it, but simply takes the statements you give it and, every 8 to 12 seconds, changes around the wording of each one. Like you're in a dream and keep looking away from the page and the text is dancing before you. Would institutions be less uncomfortable with its use? (not wholly comfortable - you're still replacing natural expressivity with random pulls from a computerised phrase-thesaurus)
Imagine an LLM-based application which never tells you anything you haven't already told it, but simply takes the statements you give it and, every 8 to 12 seconds, changes around the wording of each one. Like you're in a dream and keep looking away from the page and the text is dancing before you. Would institutions be less uncomfortable with its use? (not wholly comfortable - you're still replacing natural expressivity with random pulls from a computerised phrase-thesaurus)