Some people will look at the date of these first few posts and think that I’m crazy. They just invented robots that generate unlimited text! What do you think you’re going to contribute that can’t be generated ad nauseam?
I don’t have any illusions about how amazing my writing is going to be – the odds are, I’m not going to discover anything that wasn’t gone over by like, Plato hundreds of years ago. But I still think it’s important to try.
The AI models we use today were trained with what we can equate to the entire content of the internet. Everything everybody ever wrote and put online, you can make the assumption that it was used to train an AI. They contain the sum of every single hot take ever made from the last 20 years.
The thing I’m concerned about is that the hot takes need to continue. We can’t just have AI come up with them – it will just repeat what other people said before. That’s what I am hoping to help contribute towards: creating new text and ideas in an internet that is going to become more and more homogeneous now that there’s a profit motive behind making as much text as possible.
When well written but generic text is commoditized, all I have to offer is my unique perspective. I’m hoping I can use that perspective to connect with people and try to figure life out together, without always resorting to the conventional wisdom that AI models spit out all the time. Will I come up with anything particularly original? I’m at least going to try!
Why I wish there were more blogs
You may be familiar with the word “sonder”:
The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own, with their own unique stories, experiences, and emotions. It’s the awareness that everyone, even strangers, has a profound, personal narrative unfolding around them, often without our direct knowledge or involvement
You can just imagine the Instagram aesthetic image behind this text, right? But regardless of that, it’s a powerful idea.
I feel like blogs are one of the few ways that you can actually tap in to a person’s inner thoughts without already knowing them closely. Every blog presents a new unique version of reality from somebody. Great bloggers are able to share their perspectives so well that they can change how others see the world.
As for me, I am just an intensely introspective person that needs a place to put all of these thoughts. So I hope that you enjoy coming along for the ride!