he problem with AI “art” is that it was not the expression of a mortal being choosing to spend its one wild and precious life clawing its way through mediocrity to try and imperfectly communicate a feeling with other mortal beings who, by definition, can never fully comprehend it, and therefore it is fundamentally uninteresting to me.

I can read any number of books all by myself (and do!), ruminating only on my own interpretation and never contending with someone who might disagree with me. Or better yet push a button and get a 10-minute AI-generated summary of that book, and push another button and get an AI-generated blog post about the insights of that book that I can throw... See more

The problem with AI “art” is that it was not the expression of a mortal being choosing to spend its one wild and precious life clawing its way through mediocrity to try and imperfectly communicate a feeling with other mortal beings who, by definition, can never fully comprehend it, and therefore it is fundamentally uninteresting to me.

Pain does not mean growth, but growth does require pain. It is so easy in our rotten modernity to choose convenience and ease, to avoid friction at all costs and tell ourselves it is self-care

Pain does not mean growth, but growth does require pain. It is so easy in our rotten modernity to choose convenience and ease, to avoid friction at all costs and tell ourselves it is self-care

The thing that makes art interesting is that it was created by people who could have chosen to spend their time doing literally anything else. Do you know how long it takes to write a novel? Isn’t it amazing how many people have done it anyway?

“all destination and no journey”