History Doesn’t Repeat, But Its Rhythms Tell Us Of Future Surprises The Elephant In The Room AI has arrived, a giant puncturing of the world. We’re all stirring around in its flood as we predict and use and fight its effects, the great cataclysmic rushing out of the waters of change. The dam has been broken and we are downstream. Much of what we say is based on our limited perceptions of change, and much of what we say is necessarily wrong since we are in the moment. For inst

Write Into Realms AI Can’t Follow Bluntly, here is my premise. Probability Engines (AI) can’t write beautifully. They are fed too much crap, and they can only produce the literary equivalent of tapioca. So write into the beauty, move to the country where the actual language matters, and provide an emotional and aesthetic experience that the reader needs. The reader, or at least the one that matters, will walk away from PE pulp and turn to you. Let me give you some examples. F

It’s Only Zeros and Ones MFA programs are inadvertently designed for hostile takeover by Probability Engines, because at the lowest level they teach dogma and Rules. [Of course you’ve heard “Be creative. Learn the rules and then break them judiciously.”] Probability Engines love rules. They reverse-INVENT the rules from the thousands and millions of texts upon which they have trained. They need the guardrails, the connect-the-dots, the predictability. More precisely, they inv