It's funny: I also enjoy good writing, I practice writing every day -- but I don't think I agree that we can define our way out of this.
I'd love to say that what the bots do is excluded from writing by definition. But the problem is that I keep reading it and then realizing a little way in that of is probably slop. Or sometimes only after someone else points it out. I'm ashamed to admit that my slopometer is not as tuned as some.
I can dismiss it as not writing, but this move sounds a little like the reason my mother refused to let me read cool SciFi and fantasy books or comics -- they weren't literature.
I want a stronger defense against the slop for when it gets better -- because it will get better.
Currently, my problem with slop is that it is thoughtless, like a person who doesn't quite care what they say or even if it makes sense. It might just as well make an argument for living without any technology or tools at all (Thor Heyerdal style) as embracing all the post humanist longevity stuff of Bryan Johnson. It just doesn't care what it says.
This lack of loyalty to any particular thought is very unnerving. A human who behaved like that would quickly be friendless.
It's funny: I also enjoy good writing, I practice writing every day -- but I don't think I agree that we can define our way out of this.
I'd love to say that what the bots do is excluded from writing by definition. But the problem is that I keep reading it and then realizing a little way in that of is probably slop. Or sometimes only after someone else points it out. I'm ashamed to admit that my slopometer is not as tuned as some.
I can dismiss it as not writing, but this move sounds a little like the reason my mother refused to let me read cool SciFi and fantasy books or comics -- they weren't literature.
I want a stronger defense against the slop for when it gets better -- because it will get better.
Currently, my problem with slop is that it is thoughtless, like a person who doesn't quite care what they say or even if it makes sense. It might just as well make an argument for living without any technology or tools at all (Thor Heyerdal style) as embracing all the post humanist longevity stuff of Bryan Johnson. It just doesn't care what it says.
This lack of loyalty to any particular thought is very unnerving. A human who behaved like that would quickly be friendless.