keccers
@keccers.eth
Sometimes I read old books and It’s painful because I know there is no one alive who could write as well as the old authors did because of declining iq/standards/literacy and it only stands to get worse as more and more writing is taken on by AI The upshot is there’s too many books for one person to read as it is so
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Rafi
@rafi
How much can we learn by reading only the past tho The learnings are to be extracted by those who can write today
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keccers
@keccers.eth
It’s not about the message — it’s about the quality of writing. No one today is capable of writing well to the same level, is my point
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Rafi
@rafi
I was addressing the upshot part of your cast. In any case, the writing won’t improve in a world where people communicate in hasty medium like the one we’re using right now eg. post-Renaissance thinkers wrote lots of letters to each other. Nowadays we cast, we broadcast. I think that lower writing quality stems from blurry mediums we use nowadays
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artlu 🎩
@artlu
isn't it fair that the most talented writers today write for different mediums and audiences than before? I compare Steven King to Graham Greene (callback deep cut lore alert!) and ofc SK is higher quality than GG. Or, go read Ken Liu and then even try to read 20 pages of Tolstoy. Go ahead. You can't. Chinese American writer >>> Russian writer. There I said it. I think your original pov is kinda like the people who couldn't appreciate Elvis or the Beatles. (☝️all points intended to be read with tongue in cheek)
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