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“I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly.” This is a quote from Douglas R. Hofstadter (the writer of Gödel Escher Bach). It may be the case that, mathematically speaking, to “truly” understand something is to lose your identity as you model it completely. To truly understand yourself, is to lose yourself. To truly understand the universe, is to die.
This AI boom has set off an existential crisis in me.
Some background: I’ve been teaching writing for the past six years. In that time, I developed frameworks for how to write well and a reputation as a good teacher to learn from. Partially because of the AI wave, I decided to stop teaching. It has only been four months since I shut down my business, but I can no longer imagine teaching writing in a way that resembles anything close to the way I taught in the past.
The reason is simple: The world…
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One last drag. I flick the butt into the side alley, yeah, fucking arrest me, and walk into the belly of the force that rules the world.
Wells Fargo at my six. The El Portal, a vaudeville relic on my right, the paint faded and peeling under a relentless sun. Martin Luther would rip his ninety-five theses off the Wittenberg church door and…
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