So long as GPT-25 digests a text, its done its job.
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Attack and dethrone books!
Hail threadthulhu 🐙
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All hail!
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Long live the block
Hail threadthulu 
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Someday (“when the tonguin’ is done”), we’ll see the age of books for what it has been: the first stage of the creation of cognitive fossil fuels. The real prize is the oil forming inside AIs right now.
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Realizing I’m mildly triggered by any behavior that vaguely resembles prayer without actually being prayer in a traditional religious sense. Actual prayer I can tune out and ignore. But prayer directed at books, constitutions, music, art, Straussian Great Men... annoying.
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There’s some story, I forget source, about a tyrant who promised not to burn a library of a conquered land but got around it by putting all their words in alphabetical order or something. I kinda like the spirit of that story a lot.
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Things like Google n-grams effectively do something halfway to that. The “fossil fuel” UX of books.
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Books are basically a historically contingent form factor for a much richer collective computing process. It’s a mistake to think that they’re the only UX for the underlying collective stream of consciousness let alone the best one.
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Death of the author ftw. Mainlining Borg mind stream without the intercessionary figure of the author confusing matters by invoking some sort of platonic realm of idea traditions.
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Imagine a world where memes and gifs and threadthulhus turn directly into Mars rovers and new Rick and Morty episodes without tediously bottlenecking through “books”
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I mean I’m writing one now (serialized) but only 1 in 3 of my book-sized ideas is also *book-shaped.* And that just shows my age/rigidities (and tbh hangover of youthful vanities). I suspect other things being equal, Zoomers will have 1 in 10 ideas in book form.
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