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Ben Goldhaber reposted vishal [verified] @koreindian · 19h we really need a literature of the singularity. no one is adequately capturing (either in fiction or in creative non-fiction) what is happening right now in the bay. nyc/iowa literary culture has lost the mandate of heaven, and these people lack the technical prerequisites. bay area bloggers (e.g. scott alexander) generally don't have respect for great literature and want their writing to sound like their neutral speaking voice. there are some great stylists who are actually trying, like sam kriss, but he has bad epistemics and gets distracted by irrelevant spectacle (c.f. "child's play"). we are summoning a new form of life from latent space and permanently redirecting civilization to something yet unknown, but barely anyone is trying to find the right words to aestheticize this.
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Tweet by vishal (@koreindian) arguing that there is no adequate 'literature of the singularity' capturing the Bay Area AI scene, criticizing NYC/Iowa literary culture for lacking technical grounding and Bay Area bloggers like Scott Alexander for lacking literary ambition, praising Sam Kriss's style while faulting his epistemics, and calling for someone to find the right words to aestheticize the emergence of a 'new form of life from latent space.'