If you would have your work last forever, and by forever I mean fifty years, it must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach, but it must covertly preach and covertly teach.
~ Mark Twain
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Monthly Archives: November 2005
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A great creative writer is someone who uses language in new ways to communicate new kinds of experiences—who replaces stereotype with reality, as Proust put it. LLMs are incapable of doing this, because they have no access to an experience or a reality that lies outside of language.
~ Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
~ Albert Camus
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