Good issue of The Diff. Hadn’t thought of AI opening up a market for 1. I am not sure I buy “stud farm for content” model though.
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I doubt the valuable human input in creative work is analogous to genes. I think it is more the nurture component. ’s example of micro-genres of effectively procedurally generated romance novels is good, but I think most creative comes from lived experience
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So rather than stud farm, perhaps more like a reporter. One person lives an active day, generates enough “nurture” data to fuel many lazier days. I go on a hike and write an essay, it gets style matched to others going on VR hikes?
It may be that the *readers* supply genes 🤔
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Primitive memes that merely copy themselves over and over can’t help to match the complexity of memes capable of sexual reproduction.
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I’m thinking of injection of environmental bits. I think this thing will be more lamarckian/epigenetic than people realize.
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