If you want to write, you basically have to accept that you are just writing for your own amusement. That is all fine and good, and I have accepted that since the beginning, but you should know that is what you are getting into.Never have so many people desired to write and be read, and be met with a population that has wanted to read less than they do now. You were born at the wrong time.I am part of the problem. I read 5-10 books a year, and I don't contribute at all to uncovering new and interesting writers. Now consider that 98% of Americans read less than me, and you realize how serious the problem is.On top of it, people will tell AI to say a bunch of shit, and are filling the airwaves faster than I can write this post.It is just depressing to know that people want to creatively express themselves more than ever, and people have never cared less. I guess scarcity is what gives these things their value. I don't think there is a way to fix it.
>>25390675If you try to push your work, people will get offended. There is always someplace 'else' that you need to push it. What they really mean is that you need to go to a place where they and other people can easily ignore you. People don't want to be bothered by your "writing."
>>25390675Yeah but it's also the perfect time for me to finally realize what I'm writing and why. Machine learning is putting the creative process as well as language into public consciousness in a new way. Anyone who stops wanting to engage with the LLM is going to turn back to literature.
>>25390675It seems we are swinging back to (or perhaps we never left) an aristocratic paradigm of literature, where literature is predominantly read and appreciated by a well-educated minority of the population.The main difference is, thanks to the internet and other advancements making a huge amount of information completely free, all one need do is apply enough effort. The government education system (which wants to keep people in the peasant mindset) is actively working againt this, and glorifying ignorance while claiming their psychological torment is "education". Neither do our modern-day aristocrats value the arts, the good, the true, the beautiful as the aristocrats of old did. They are merchants at best, petty tyrants and warlords of commerce and information, who do not value the human soul, but would rather us behave like machines because a soul is inefficient.So, we live in strange times indeed. I suggest you find some place online with like-minded people, look at substack, find people you like and talk to them, and share your stories with them. The internet has brought much evil into our world, but we can also use it for our own good, and that of the whole world.
>>25391029Thanks for the kind and thoughtful comment anon
>>25390960>Anyone who stops wanting to engage with the LLM is going to turn back to literature.I am not sure I agree, but we will see I suppose. I do think agree a lot of interesting questions are raised.
>>25390675>It is just depressing to know that people want to creatively express themselves more than ever, and people have never cared less.You could write a very successful book about this. Everyone likes to think they're creative and want to express themselves but no one truly appreciates them. From the Gender Studies graduate with a thesis in Feminist Dance Therapy to the substack chud, troon programmer with a neocities page and the bored housewife with a TikTok, they'll all identify with it and love it!This is also, most likely, the cause for the slow-creep return of that insufferable le wholesome chungus way of speaking, even on an anonymous Mongolian basket weaving forum of all places. People are desperate to be nice hoping others would in return be nice to them. It's a sort of mutual masturbation with the other's hand.
