Sparks for episodes
Odds and ends that are potential ins for episodes
Sparks for episodes
Just so beautiful, and I’ve only begun reading
Viewed with the chastened hindsight of adulthood, their seriousness shows its ridiculous side, but the longing that drives it is no joke. It’s a hunger not so much for knowledge as for experience of a particular kind. Two kinds, really: the specific experience of encountering a book or work of art and also the future experience, the state of... See more
A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
Begin what? Nobody quite knows. And yet, it makes perfect sense. The logic doesn’t work, but the emotional we all echo.
TL;DR: Hot Take: Blaming ChatGPT Misses the Point
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ChatGPT is a language model - it works on predicting word sequences, and astoundingly comes up with things that seems ingenious to us. Like it’s thought of something we’re unable to think of. Is there a way for us to emulate this word-based thinking of ChatGPT to sharpen creativity?
Right now, at what can feel like a time of moral and political emergency, we cling to sentimental bromides about the importance of art. We treat it as an escape, a balm, a vague set of values that exist beyond the ugliness and venality of the market and the state. Or we look to art for affirmation of our pieties and prejudices. It splits the... See more
A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
Is art really that important?