Author: PGR
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internalize the narrative of our own obsolescence
You tell me everyone pisses in the pool, and you’re surprised that I’ve decided I’d rather not swim after all?
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temple of doom
Once you’ve played that way, playing at sensible volumes will always feel disappointing, like how I imagine Formula 1 drivers must feel when they have to do the school run in a sensible family car.
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that one guy rides again
I can think of few people in the pro-AI academic space whose writing betrays such a desperate yet frustrated desire to be affirmed and approved of by those whose ranks he once aspired to join.
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generational hangover
There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.
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and they burn so bright, while you can only wonder why
Like the faerie folk, once you’ve learned to see them, you always will—and also like the faerie folk, they can see that you can see them, and that marks you out for whatever blessings or curses they may choose to bestow upon you.