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by great_tankard
1147 days ago
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>Ridiculous not in a political sense (I have no strong feelings one way or another about the economic fates of career writers) but in the sense of being incoherent. It is not incoherent if you believe art to be an expression of the human condition. You still need humans in the writer's room to know what they want the audience to get out of a show. That is not something that ChatGPT can understand. Also, maybe people should have some feelings "about the economic fates of career writers." Who are we even building this hyper-efficient economy for? |
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These think pieces that subscribe to an unspoken underlying technological determinism are so disgusting to me, they have a really narrow and pathetic view of what it means to be human (it mostly boils down to "economic agent") Half the time I wonder if the authors themselves even have requisite humanity, and I also wonder if the obsession around digital technology is partially driven by our having made machines of ourselves in the first place (all we care about is economy, work, etc. We've lost the old notion of the "human spirit" at great cost).
More people in power and decision making positions need to start broadening their reading lists with Goethe, William Blake, Novalis, and other awakened poets and start letting some of these imaginative ideas about humanity's potential drive their lives more than purely economically motivated crapped out thinkpieces.