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at this point it’s like “how can somebody write this brilliantly?”

there’s a passage where he transcribes a job interview and it soon becomes clear that this is no longer an interview- he’s talking to the reader, letting you see him progressively more vulnerable until he’s begging you to see him, acknowledge his pain because sharing his suffering will heal him.

unreal stuff

kv writing a book in 1952 speaking about the economic implications of ai is insane

“for generations they’ve been built up to worship competition and the market, productivity and economic usefulness, and the envy of their fellow men- and boom! it’s all yanked out from under them. they can’t participate or be useful anymore. their whole culture’s been shot to hell.”