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I'm experimenting with a new form where I write flowery nonsense and don't fact-check.
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🤖 Made with AI
Just as landscape artists continued to draw mountains long after the invention of photography, I’ll still be publishing organic slop long after the internet is swamped with agents.
It’s fairly obvious that technologists would be the first to find ways to leverage it. It’ll trickle down soon enough. It probably won’t be as paradigm-shifting as it has been in programming, translation and image generation, but it’ll still cause major disruption.
To write is to feign the elegance of a swan gliding along the top of water while concealing webbed feet going like pistons beneath the surface.
Frictionless living erodes ritual, and with it our capacity to experience anything as sacred.
We confuse what an act accomplishes with what it means, but humans are symbolic animals; an act can achieve practically nothing and still mean everything.
Too much SF discussion of taste focuses on the role of the practitioner. Taste is the ability to discern, cultivated through the refinement of perception. Engagement and interaction with work matter more to developing taste than doing the work, though doing certainly helps.
Writing in an age where no one reads and drawing in an age where a computer will do that for you too.