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Seeking's avatar

Interesting to see you take a very different, optimistic take towards new technology to that taken by Paul Kingsnorth (who I know reads you as he's mentioned you). Would be great to get the two of you on a podcast talking about the two different perspectives. To be honest Paul's outlook is more than a little apocalyptic at the moment, maybe he could do with being cheered up!

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Angela Nagle's avatar

Love reading Paul’s perspective on things too. I go between really optimistic and pessimistic

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Mark Alastor's avatar

Refreshing to read an optimistic take. One thing I've thought about recently with things like ChatGPT is that it may present an opportunity for human creativity. While AI may be used to augment or replicate formerly human efforts, non-AI-reliant art and media may gain special marketing cache. I other words, Angela, you could have sticker on your next book that says "She wrote the entire thing!"

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Angela Nagle's avatar

Absolutely. A romantic aesthetic movement that places value on the real often follows these changes so the human qualities will become more valued.

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pulvis_et_umbra's avatar

I think the knowledge that a work of art was produced by a real human being (not a machine) is an integral part of how we, as fellow human beings, engage with and experience that artwork. That was a bit of a mouthful but I hope you know what I mean. In the most moving art you can always feel the power and passion of someone else's soul. Or at least that's my metric for good art. Maybe I'm just a Romantic.

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Luke Daly's avatar

Imagine the type of innovation things normal people might throw Their hands to, if they know they won't end up destitute, and and perhaps more importantly, if they have the time?

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Darcy Paterson's avatar

I can't help think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. When a person no longer needs to labour for survival are they going to skip ahead to self-actualization? Some do, some don't. Some turn into Cezanne, some turn into Hunter Biden.

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Pat Hickey's avatar

I cited the wonderful Ms. Nagle in my article for John Kass News.

https://johnkassnews.com/two-gored-bulls-of-ireland/?fbclid=IwAR0Fa-orZKAWT1JX2g9a9wg4MGcVhZIgNk4I2hBRQ9C1xjh4N62Agn6aYOY

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Angela Nagle's avatar

Very nice! Thank you

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Pat Hickey's avatar

I hope that I do you credit.

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