Thank you for bringing up boomers/Gen X as uniquely prone to the sins of AI. I know full well the state of newer Gen Z AI brainrot, as someone currently in university settings, *but* Gen X/boomers did not grow up with it and did not grow up with adults yelling about how it will take their jobs and is at the same time necessary to have a job, and they are just as bad. And they were broadly educated by a cheap/affordable university system where, for awhile, the English major (and other majors that teach media literacy) flourished. Their susceptibility to it is therefore terrifying!
As to the other stuff--I completely agree, and maybe a solution to it is, in addition to acceptance, just some cool hipster posturing. We *are* cool. Art *is* awesome. If you don't get it, maybe you should try to get better at getting it, or at least acknowledge it's one of those awesome things in life you'll never get (for me, that's jazz and Latin). Channeling some Oscar Wilde might be good for all of us here.
Beautiful! As a boomer stumped by generational divides as well as being pushed to my limits for empathy with the "whiners" your often acerbic not to mention artful writing always inspires me.
I love this. Humans thrive in adversity as much as they decay in comfort. From my perspective, Gen Z's conscious mind is bubbling a lot more than boomers - so many see what growing up on a screen has done to them. And while most folks can't take the first steps of the thousand mile journey, they look upon the precipice of the future and know that the future will not be scrolled.
I agree with what you’re saying yet still greatly fear even the super talented will not be simulated enough to reach potential not just in it near future but here and now. Every year on this site the writing gets worse. This is a much bigger emergency than we either realize or we’re too afraid to admit it to ourselves. Literature becoming “pure” again will not be enough to balance the loss. Just my opinion as a cranky millennial.
I wrote a fantasy novel and a programming language. The novel was harder.
Thank you for bringing up boomers/Gen X as uniquely prone to the sins of AI. I know full well the state of newer Gen Z AI brainrot, as someone currently in university settings, *but* Gen X/boomers did not grow up with it and did not grow up with adults yelling about how it will take their jobs and is at the same time necessary to have a job, and they are just as bad. And they were broadly educated by a cheap/affordable university system where, for awhile, the English major (and other majors that teach media literacy) flourished. Their susceptibility to it is therefore terrifying!
As to the other stuff--I completely agree, and maybe a solution to it is, in addition to acceptance, just some cool hipster posturing. We *are* cool. Art *is* awesome. If you don't get it, maybe you should try to get better at getting it, or at least acknowledge it's one of those awesome things in life you'll never get (for me, that's jazz and Latin). Channeling some Oscar Wilde might be good for all of us here.
But why can't writing books get me pussy is my mantra. It was never subconscious.
spot on
Thank you for this thinker!
Beautiful! As a boomer stumped by generational divides as well as being pushed to my limits for empathy with the "whiners" your often acerbic not to mention artful writing always inspires me.
Our younger generations are just fine.
I love this. Humans thrive in adversity as much as they decay in comfort. From my perspective, Gen Z's conscious mind is bubbling a lot more than boomers - so many see what growing up on a screen has done to them. And while most folks can't take the first steps of the thousand mile journey, they look upon the precipice of the future and know that the future will not be scrolled.
this gets a big HELL YEAH from me. (also unsurprising about the giant rules-based pattern-matching machine making math trivial.)
I agree with what you’re saying yet still greatly fear even the super talented will not be simulated enough to reach potential not just in it near future but here and now. Every year on this site the writing gets worse. This is a much bigger emergency than we either realize or we’re too afraid to admit it to ourselves. Literature becoming “pure” again will not be enough to balance the loss. Just my opinion as a cranky millennial.
I think you’re right, so write something! Fight against the tide!