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Automating the creation of art is like automating life, so you can make it to the finish line faster.

A century ago, only a book’s interior featured typography: whatever words appeared on its cover, spine, or illustrations were lettering, produced not by assembling letters, but by drawing them.

There is a common human tendency here incidentally. When we discover scary new things, we try to think of them as inventions first because inventions seem to embody a contingent optionality and afford us more agency than discoveries. It feels like we don’t have to use them if we don’t like them, and that we have some sort of god-like creator-agency... See more

We’re in a chasm between stories that used to function and new stories which haven’t yet gathered enough coherence to function effectively. We can respect the stories of the past, but we also realise that they often aren’t actually helping us to navigate the reality we are living in anymore. Oftentimes we’ve surpassed the level of knowledge and und... See more

This idea that we all need to “heal” implies that there’s some ideal, specific state that we’re trying to get to. But what that looks like? Nobody really knows. Except for the guy wearing a deep v-neck, linen pants, and a crystal on a chain around his neck (bonus points for a man-bun)—for $30,000, he can tell you.

It can be hard to bear, how the cosmos went from hydrogen to the double helix by its own insentient laws, forged from the iron rib of dying stars creatures capable of the Benedictus and the atomic bomb, hurled ice ages and earthquakes at the rocky body of a world we now walk in skins and nervous systems over which have had no say, born into familie... See more

8. “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

We don’t have material anymore, simply forms mediated by screens. Our input is mediated, our output is mediated. We shape letters from numbers and draw curves with equations. Letters are no longer things, but pictures of things transmitted by light.