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Dead Labor, Dead Speech - by Nicholas Carr

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:15:48 +0000

If, as Marx argued, capital is dead labor, then the products of large language models might best be understood as dead speech. Just as factory workers produce, with their “living labor,” machines and other forms of physical capital that are then used, as “dead labor,” to produce more physical commodities, so human expressions of thought and creativity—“living speech” in the forms of writing, art, photography, and music—become raw materials used to produce “dead speech” in those same forms. LLMs, to continue with Marx’s horror-story metaphor, feed “vampire-like” on human culture. Without our words and pictures and songs, they would cease to function. They would become as silent as a corpse in a casket.

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Tarot for Creativity – Chronicle Books

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 01:32:16 +0000

Tarot isn’t just for divination—it’s also a great way to connect to your creativity. Discover how tarot can help you stay inspired and make your best work with this practical guidebook.

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The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned – Steven Pressfield

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:10:22 +0000

Nobody wants to read your shit. Let me repeat that. Nobody–not even your dog or your mother–has the slightest interest in your commercial for Rice Krispies or Delco batteries or Preparation H. Nor does anybody care about your one-act play, your Facebook page or your new sesame chicken joint at Canal and Tchopotoulis. It isn’t that people are mean or cruel. They’re just busy.

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The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned – Steven Pressfield

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:10:22 +0000

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Goodreads | Quote by Ira Glass: "Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I w..."

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:02:48 +0000

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

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A Writing Revolution § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:22:04 +0000

"As readers, we consume. As authors, we create. Our society is changing from consumers to creators."

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Reasons to be optimistic for the future - opinion - 09 September 2009 - New Scientist

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:23:57 +0000

"Now, more than ever, science and reason must prevail. The scale of the challenge is hard to overstate, but New Scientist is optimistic that we can succeed: our boundless doomsaying is more than matched by our boundless creativity and our ability to, eventually, do the right thing."

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Epeus' epigone: Not consumers or users, but amateurs

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:42:25 +0000

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Really Simple Goal Setting | Zen Habits

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:09:54 +0000

"You can still do the other goals, but put them off for a month or two. Focus on one goal for at least a month … and turn it into a habit. So if you want to run a marathon, create the habit of running each day. If you want to write a novel, create the habit of writing each morning. If you want to create a successful blog, create the habit of writing insanely useful posts each day. Once your first goal becomes a habit and is on autopilot, turn to the next goal — you don’t have to worry as much about the first goal because it has become automatic."

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Learning from King and Whedon, and getting out of the ghetto | J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son: OBSIDIAN (Current Shows)

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:02:57 +0000

"You’re never just a blogger, or a podcaster, or a YouTube Director. If we mentally adhere to these labels, we willfully paint ourselves into creative corners. If the fumes don’t kill you, the frustration will."

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Berners-Lee: Challenge of the web is 'creative connectivity' - Education - Macworld UK

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:42:19 +0000

"In the future, the web should be able to connect people's ideas in such a way that one person could store his partly formed ideas and leave a trail of his thinking for other people trying to solve the same problem, he said."

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Become a victim of the OBSIDIAN blackout — and make history | 7th Son: J.C. Hutchins' Podcast Novel Trilogy

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:11:33 +0000

"Now, you’re not an actor. You’re not a movie director. But you’re more than capable of creating creative, compelling, “authentic” content, because you are a creative, compelling, authentic individual. Be confident in your abilities. I have abso

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Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:18:24 +0000

"I don't know the actual true number, but I think a dedicated artist could cultivate 1,000 True Fans, and by their direct support using new technology, make an honest living. I'd love to hear from anyone who might have settled on such a path."

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Creators, Consumers, and What’s “Right?” at Blogature

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:19:06 +0000

"Part of a close creator/consumer relationship is about treating the people who appreciate what you’re creating with the utmost respect."

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College art students give Yahoo engineers a lesson in creativity - Yahoo! News

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:51:36 +0000

"From framed spit balls to baby dolls driven by lollipop licks, Yahoo had college artists from as far as Britain and Brazil on display to inspire its engineers."

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