Prominent Novelist
Turbo-charged Nihilism
Prominent Novelist
When NYC “free speech” liberals dedicated themselves to fretting over “cancel culture,” I went mute and refused to engage, and instead simply proceeded as if that entire discourse didn’t exist. This worked out very well for me. And through that experience, I seem to have built the exact set of skills I have now deployed to pretend A.I. doesn't exist, and for me it simply does not. The mind is...
Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm, Hollywood Screenwriter, Ivy League Literature Professor, Ivy League Postdoc, Literary Agent, Magazine Editor and Writer, New York Times Best-selling Author, News Reporter, PhD Student in History, Prominent Novelist, Psychiatry Fellow, Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company, Unemployed Anthropologist, Union Organizer
At a May event in Poland, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk revealed that she had asked an A.I. chatbot to suggest songs the protagonists of her latest novel might have heard at a dance set decades ago. And her queries weren’t limited to questions of historical fact: “Often I just ask the machine, ‘Darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’” she continued. “In literary fiction this technology is an advantage of...
