words

Needed to rant a little after one too many people asked me this recently about my book reading habit. 

I mean, maybe they should consider watching AI summaries of their TikTok Feed...

Writer | Book lover | Hobby Classical Guitarist | Marketing /subsquid | /classical music nerd and /postcards lady

Bookmarked so I can read and then respond after time's done with basting it.

Writing sci-fi stories and other things too: markmcclure.xyz Casting in the word shallows.

Well, I read your piece, the comments, and some other casts too. Thanks for writing 

Social Media? Not in my now truncated experience. I deal with it as Attention mining on steroids. 

One of my fav words (and this began in Germany, I heard?) is "smombie" - smartphone zombie haha. The infestation is spreading World War Z style.

A.I.?
Try Machine Learning.
Notice that it's machine learning and not machine yearning.
Machines cannot yearn.
The difference is significant.

I definitely noticed the yearning in your rant! Well done.

Aww thank you so much. 

Smombie, yeah, that sounds familiar haha 

Definitely, it's the thing that many similar critical people tend to point out that A.I does not actually care. It can use the same words a human would to express such feelings, but there's a huge difference. 

I'm just not sure people can differentiate considering how much of our own messages is happening through the same screen interface.