We have 3 years left before AI makes humans obsolete
At Facebook, Dylan Ratigan quotes Elon Musk as saying “We have approximately three years left — three years — before artificial intelligence renders the exchange of human skill and intelligence for money effectively obsolete. “After that, Musk argues, the world stratifies into a binary: people who own assets — real estate, precious metals, energy […]
Text is a subset of language
Browsing my usual haunts, I notice they are websites where I can read text. Everybody else is watching videos. Text is so Boomer. I have to get over my belief that text = language. Text is a subset of language. In China, people speak dozens of different languages but they can all read […]
Half of all new content on the web is AI-generated
The number keeps rising. Humans are not needed any more. AI generates pleasing consensus content. No surprises! Companies are letting AI wrap their info into the latest buzzphrases, thus hiding it from view. I see lots of tech companies that aren’t explaining their product on their website, and I […]
Anything I can do, AI can do better
Well, no, it’s not quite true. Not yet. AI can present something plausible, something that’s good enough because nobody reads this shit anyway. Why bother providing useful text when nobody reads it? My counterargument is that nobody reads it because it’s not worth reading. A vicious circle. Nobody reads it, so why bother […]
What good is reading?
I’m wallowing in online information sites where you read stuff rather than watch videos. Digital video is erasing everything else. What’s the point. I keep cramming text into my brain just like I’ve been doing every day for the last eight decades. Reading is my life. What good is reading? All it does is […]
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
DanK offered to show me what Claude design could do. He asked me to send him my favorite ten stories and Claude will design a book. Why the fuck not. I’m dwindling away. Google Search keeps reducing the number of my pages that it indexes. I was trying to look at the SpaceX launch online […]
The AI Invasion
Everywhere I look I see AI invading. The Turing Test has long since been sent to the old folks’ home–AI can write stuff well enough to persuade you a human did it. Fool me once, fool me forever. There’s no going back. I look at VentureBeat.com several times a week–it’s been around […]
Instructions to Forgive
Instructions to forgiveA poem by Cesar Verrier First, remember. It is a painful task. Be gentle with yourself. Write down your recollections. You can’t forgive what you refuse to remember. Start your excursion into memory before you were so cruelly treated. Recapture what your life was like then and what you were like, too. Reconstruct […]
The Technology of Text
The Technology of Text Back when history began, writing was a secret for a small inner circle of kings and priests and tax collectors. Then a sudden technological advance let ordinary people convert text into audible speech. It was 2,700 years ago, and Greece was just another grubby little kingdom until King Cadmus […]
Copywritering 9-16-24
I was a copywriter for a long time and then the Macintosh computer came along and changed the entire graphic arts industry. Typesetters were among the first to vanish. A prominent Santa Barbara typesetter suicided. I myself profited by draining the life out of typesetters using my laser printer. When I bought my first laser […]