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Hell yeah, I generated this! Hell yeah, a part of me fucking loves it and that part of me deserves to enjoy itself too, because every part of me is worthy and awesome, including the perverse shadowy parts!
Existential Kink
Carolyn Elliott
We walked together to the parking lot, and on the way Elaine said, “Tell me you’ve gotten a new car.” We rounded a corner, and there was the Beetle in all its battle-scarred glory. “I like this one,” I told her, and opened the door for her. “You redid the interior,” she said as I got in and started the car. “Demons ate the old one.”
Of course, personalized art might never catch on, because people will continue to prefer common hits that everybody likes. How can you dance or sing together to a song nobody besides you knows? But algorithms could prove even more adept at producing global hits than personalized rarities. By using massive biometric databases garnered from millions of people, the algorithm could know which biochemical buttons to press in order to produce a global hit that would get everybody swinging like crazy on the dance floors.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
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