[leobg]

When I was younger, I read some self help book. The author, in an attempt to prove the effectiveness of resolve, said the had written the entire book in a day. I put it away immediately and never read any further. If this dude didn’t spend more than a day to write it, I’m not going to waste my time reading it. That was my immediate reflex.

I may make an exception for Nietzsche, who sometimes did write whole chapters in a day or two of good health. But for a mere mortal, I expect proof of work.

Now how inclined am I to read a book that someone generated with AI within a few minutes? I’m not even gonna read the _announcement_. Call me a fool, or old fashioned.

[ithkuil]

Wow. I wouldn't even read a book that took 10 years to be written unless enough other people have read it and vouch for me that the book is actually good.

Call me old fashioned but I honestly thought that's how one selects the relatively few books one can actually read among the gazillions of books that get written in the wild.

[hiatus]

> But for a mere mortal, I expect proof of work.

How can you make a fair comparison between the two if you haven't read one?