TheLatestHype

Nobody starts as a Professional.

People start as Amateur, progress through Adept and toward Master.

What makes a person progress beyond Amateur? 

Skill. Study. Experience. 

What do you get if you allow a machine to replace the development of 

Skill, Study and Experience? 

You get: no further development. 

You remain amateur for ever. 

When the market is flooded by amateur efforts created by machines, 

there is a demand for a separate, traditionalist market 

for people who are Adepts and Masters.  

“It evens the playing field” 

Says the pro-AI-writer lobby. 

So would giving amphetamines and anabolic steroids to Olympic athletes. 

There is a reason it is disallowed. 

“It dehumanises and reduces Human potential.” 

Says the anti-AI-writer lobby. 

“What if it is all we are capable of after having been dumbed down?” 

Ask the observant social commentators.  

If giving up on doing what is necessary, to become Adept and Master, 

is considered all you are capable of; 

you have not faced and overcome the very struggle 

which is a part of what develops a writer from amateur to adept and adept to master. 

“But I want to write a book and I am not a professional writer.”

I want to win the Olympics but I have to concede it is not my natural purpose.

‘I Want’ does not equate to developing any ability to achieve a certain benchmark. 

‘Professional’ is a word which means ‘in exchange for money’. 

THAT IS ALL IT MEANS.

It has less to do with Ability or Quality than ‘Professionals’ will confess to.

And yes, it is very obvious when writing is created by an AI. We can tell. 

Now if you will excuse me, 

I have to go back to writing ’5318008’ upside down in my calculator 

to convince myself I am a professional mathematician. 

Here is some stuff about The Latest Hype ™ ;

https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/29933455931412-What-is-NaNoWriMo-s-position-on-Artificial-Intelligence-AI

In short: 

While you do have a right to make badly forged paintings if you are unethical, 

most of us do not want to look at that crap anyway. 

https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/29929627478804--I-can-t-believe-NaNoWriMo-is-endorsing-a-person-company-who-does

In short: 

It is not up to us what you write and we refuse to discriminate against anyone. 

Fair enough. Good call.

‘AI is coming for the amatuer novelists. Thats Fine.’ By Gold Beckerman: 

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/09/ai-is-coming-for-the-amateur-novelists-thats-fine/679696/

CagesOfTheMind

Cages of the Mind 

for the people who don't get it

‘transhumanism’ is everybody 

who left the forests, 

went to the plains, 

ate the mushrooms

learned how to 

rub sticks together

to make fire, 

transhumans are the ones who are using cars, 

transhumans are clothes wearers and hunters, 

transhumans are dishonest to hide magic in books 

so unborn people can be influenced by their vile ego, 

transhumans are the ones who reach for the stars 

instead of staying in the sea to feed the sharks, 

transhumans brush their hair and clean their teeth with tools, 

transhumans are characterised by their use of tools 

to expand potential latent in the original amoebic seed, 

transhumans is a very new word for a very old thing, 

we used to call it adaptation to improve the human condition. 

This is not the loss of humanity. 

We are only as human in the new land as we were in the last land. 

The humanity is that which we contain and bring with us. 

Those who fear the changes 

we will experience as we enhance 

and expand our potential, 

those who stay watching shadows in caves, 

we respect those too 

but sooner or later we realise, 

those are the ones 

who are only alive 

because we keep them in zoos

the cages of the mind

For the record,

I do not advise people to get a chip in your head 

The people who associate that with transhumanism

are asking for SnowCrash