Brian Sholis
@briansholis
Brian Sholis
"I function like a more curated but less efficient version of GPT. My sentences are not generated by A.I., but they are largely the synthesis of my favorite authors."
I enjoy reading human writing because I like getting mad at people. Perhaps the personal quality in writing is a happy accident, and a lot of journalism could be replaced with an immen
... See moreJay Caspian Kang • What’s the Point of Reading Writing by Humans?
"I function like a more curated but less efficient version of GPT. My sentences are not generated by A.I., but they are largely the synthesis of my favorite authors."
"I enjoy reading human writing because I like getting mad at people. Perhaps the personal quality in writing is a happy accident, and a lot of journalism could be replaced with an imme
... See moreJay Caspian Kang • What’s the Point of Reading Writing by Humans?
Waverly: A social space for the infinitely curious
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- "What could be more worthy, and rewarding, I think, than to give over the second half of life to the recovery of the first?"
Lapham's Quarterly • Strange Days | Sven Birkerts
- "The layers of the night are in fact the layers of the self; they offer the most random unfolding of the accumulations of experience—everything that happened and mattered and lapsed away as the next new thing claimed the attention. There is no way to guess what will suddenly surface in those hours. At times I need only to call to mind a specific ... See more
Lapham's Quarterly • Strange Days | Sven Birkerts
- "“How do you pass the time?” suggests the basic model of existence, in which living a life is seen on the one hand as traversing an unspecified span of time—marked out in years—and on the other, as moving through the natural cycle of hours, from dawn to dusk. Time, then, is understood to be a medium one negotiates. And in this respect: how do I p... See more