Why millennial men are turning to the Book of Common Prayer. Very cool! And if they’d like to know more about the book’s history, I can help.
Tim Keller: “If the Church aims at loving service to one’s neighbor while clearly speaking the truth, it will grow again and may have cultural influence. But if it aims at influence rather than humble service, it will have neither.”
Re: those two recent links: TV and movie writers fear that their employers want to outsource writing to AI; meanwhile, other writers seem to hate their work. Maybe we can work out a deal so the people who want to be replaced by AI can be. (BTW, I wrote about writers hating writing a while back.)
I eagerly co-sign this from Freddie: “So why write if you hate writing? … But you could do literally anything else, if you dislike the process so much. Or you could write, as an amateur or a professional, and join a noble enterprise that’s as almost as old as civilization. If you do that, why not try and enjoy it a little bit?”
Tim Carmody: “A writer in 2023 is disproportionately likely to be working on a script for a giant company that treats their output as a vanishingly small data point to plug into the attention factory. Why wouldn’t they be anxious?”
Emerging
Baldur Bjarnason: “Believing the myth of Artificial General Intelligence makes you incapable of understanding what language models today are and how they work.”
Currently listening 🎵
