Three weeks from now, I get an email from you saying "Garrett, this is cute and all, but you just wrote a check made out to KATHLEEN, CHRIS AND NIA AND ALL THE OTHER WRITERS and we can't actually cash that."
I am not sure I will ever stop marveling at the miracle that this has been, all these writers being in conversation with one another without having any idea they were doing so. It's weird and wonderful and so very human. And for me too, it's shown me over and over, over months and hours, what a rare and necessary thing the gift of connection is -- both with other humans and with the very real lives we all live. Very excited for people other than you and me to read these essays!
I love them. I was re-reading one last night and literally thinking, this is the absolute case against A.I. because only a beautiful human writer with a human life could do this.
(And just between you and me, AI might never have had as much trouble with titles, but wrestling through what works and what doesn’t and why is part of what it makes it all so human.)
Ok, actually we only make our guests read one thing: the chapter in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee about the Nimiipuu. It's short, and has all the elements.
Also: OMG that ChatGPT conversation piece is more horrifying than I thought it was going to be. One of the comments said, "Honesty is not a stable training target." Well then.
Yes, hello. I would like to buy 100 copies of this book. Thank you!
Writing this down on an order form, by hand, with a pencil.
Three weeks from now, I get an email from you saying "Garrett, this is cute and all, but you just wrote a check made out to KATHLEEN, CHRIS AND NIA AND ALL THE OTHER WRITERS and we can't actually cash that."
lollll
I am not sure I will ever stop marveling at the miracle that this has been, all these writers being in conversation with one another without having any idea they were doing so. It's weird and wonderful and so very human. And for me too, it's shown me over and over, over months and hours, what a rare and necessary thing the gift of connection is -- both with other humans and with the very real lives we all live. Very excited for people other than you and me to read these essays!
I love them. I was re-reading one last night and literally thinking, this is the absolute case against A.I. because only a beautiful human writer with a human life could do this.
Me. Too.
(And just between you and me, AI might never have had as much trouble with titles, but wrestling through what works and what doesn’t and why is part of what it makes it all so human.)
I already told Nia I'm getting one for our guest room, to sit on the bedside table with Last Best Place.
People are afraid to visit us, you say?
Ok, actually we only make our guests read one thing: the chapter in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee about the Nimiipuu. It's short, and has all the elements.
LOL!
Here's another one of those jobs mostly likely never replaceable by AI -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Pt3HqQGi8
Yes! I love this, thanks for sharing.
Also: OMG that ChatGPT conversation piece is more horrifying than I thought it was going to be. One of the comments said, "Honesty is not a stable training target." Well then.
it's evil