[Finnucane]

When I was in college I took a class in modern poetry. The teacher showed us a film about Bukowski. Before the film, there was a trigger warning. "I must warn you," he said, "Charles Bukowski is an asshole."

[firebones]

My reaction to the title was "AI is learning enough from misogynistic assholes in its crawled data already, it doesn't need Bukowski's help."

[sedovsek]

Oh, yes. And I think he was proud of that.

> the best writers have said very little and the worst, far too much. > bag over his head in a bathtub full of water. what Hitler couldn’t do, he did to himself. happy journey.

Throughout reading the "Betting on the muse", I had plenty of "what an asshole" moments.