The Stillborn God: the Age of AI is (Un)Dead

The problem, though, is that these tools will remain cheap, and will continue to be so even deep into their derangement. The people generating cognitive poison for children up above spend almost no money and almost as little time on their work. They can repeat this process hundreds of times in the space it takes a legitimate children’s book to be made. It produces garbage, but the margins are incredibly friendly. Why do six months of work that involves thought and skilled labor if you can just spend the same period of time churning out digital slop for the same payout?

Cameron’s Book Reviews: Late 2021

A collection of book reviews, covering what Cameron read from July through late October, covering mostly fiction alongside some journalistic and nonfiction books.

Theorizing the Transient

What I have come to understand is that transience – that is, the state of being transient – is a problem. For the past decade or so, I have been transient to one degree or another. You wouldn’t know it to look at me, performing as I do a certain middle-class identity in my dress, speech, and profession, but that is what I am. This is what it means to be part of the so-called “precariat”.

Edgar's Book Round-Up, August 2021

Here we are again! The summer drags, kicking and screaming, to its close; I once again have only the worst tan lines; the kiddos are going back to school.

Cameron's Book Reviews: Early 2021

I tend to set my reading goal a lot lower than Edgar, for a variety of reasons. One of them is the fact that I think aiming to read a large number of books over the course of a year means that you engage less deeply with them. Or, at least, when I do that, that’s how it works for me. Still, I have read a few extremely good books this year.