i believe the limits on machine creativity are not computational, but spiritual. read more: https://nitter.cf/t.co/7Ik3KqYWAl
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MY BOOKS YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT
1. How to Start: This is a book about what "day one of greatness" looks like jashdholani.gumroad.com/l/ho…
2. Bangers: a curation of some of the best philosophical one-liners of all time jashdholani.gumroad.com/l/ba…
3. The Case Against AI Art jashdholani.gumroad.com/l/on…
Enjoy 🥂
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I had this conversation with Sandy Stoddart once over a box of cigarettes. We were both in agreement that art and architecture is an external expression of an inwardly felt aesthetic feeling.
We also both agreed, however, that all artistic movements are not built ex nihilo, but out of tradition. Art Deco is part of the continuous tradition of Western art and has a part to play in informing the aesthetic of the future.
the internet needs less content, and more art. less "high time preference" slop, more "low time preference" projects. less trend-hopping, more sincere pursuit of long-standing intellectual curiosities. less "play the volume" game, more "play the quality" game
i think it's a beautiful quirk of the english language that you can't say "question" without saying "quest." to ask a question with sincerity, and then to go on the adventure of finding an answer, is nothing short of a grand quest
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The Use of Knowledge in Society, Hayek 1945. You'll never see society in the same way again. It is generally ranked as one of the most important texts in the history of economics and . Btw, you should collect all the suggestions and publish in a separate post. Lotta good ones!
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Or maybe they're just not getting published. I remember reading some stats on the demographics of who is getting published nowadays, and it's a DEI situation. This probably has something to do with it: nitter.cf/JamesLNuzzo/status/211…
"Today, the Big Five publishers are staffed almost entirely by women. According to the most recent data, more than 70 percent of staffers are women. More than 70 percent of editors are women. Even 70 percent of all interns are women. At the executive level, more than 60 percent of leaders are women. In 2026, American publishing looks like lululemon."
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what disappeared are the conditions which
formed the writers (and writing) in 1926
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Or it is suppressed. My novels were cast off by publishers for not being "feminist" enough.
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You can't replace "the university experience" with AI because there is more to going to university than learning alone with your computer. You can "unbundle" that part of education that is specifically concerned with solo study. Always could.
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Wow, I can't wait for a world where money doesn't matter and decisions about things like whether I get to live in a nice house in a nice area are made by my super-intelligent, super-powerful, super-wealthy, super-high-status overlords!
Author wants book covers removed and replaced with a random line from the book
He said it would end cover-bait and help readers "know exactly what you're going to be seeing"
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X should have a zero tolerance policy for AI replies
Like you do one and your account is suspended for life
Replies are a nightmare now and it's never ever been this bad
AI replies are an an existential threat to the future of this platform, because people will simply stop using it if the vast majority of replies are AI bots
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The novel is severely unprofitable, and its decline is accelerating by the day. I say this as someone who's been writing a sci-fi trilogy for the better part of a decade.
As in, even pre-AI the median book sold 400 copies over their lifetime. I'd imagine that has gone down as there's been a flood of AI books eating the little bit there was.
Let's accept that 400 copy limit, and going by how much it took to write my non-fiction book, it's about 1,000 hours (not including actual research) of focused work to produce one volume.
It would actually be more cost-effective to have 2 hour calls with each potential reader lol.
This is not to say that I'll stop writing, but telling someone they should devote 1k+ hours of focused attention, ignore the opportunity cost of paid work, etc. is a tough ask, especially when other options are taking over the zeitgeist.
if "the novel" is dying, we should bring it back to life, because there's no other art form quite like it. novels have sucked me in and moved around the furniture in my head in a way that no film, painting, or music album has. be the storyteller you want to see in the world...
this is probably what happened with painters too. they didn't disappear, they became cinematographers, art directors, and set designers. they are still out there, composing artful scenes, just using different tools