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E.L. Zeitgeist's avatar

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Everything you've written here is why I recently turned to write fiction. I became SO exhausted (and honestly pretty disgusted) by the writer I was in Stages 1-3, I just...couldn't....takeitanymore. Season 3 helped me see this more clearly. With that said, maybe, just maybe there will be a Foster Fiction season in the future. I'm so there.

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Danver Chandler's avatar

I got a really interesting visual as I read through this piece, and it cycles back within itself...

First: It's interesting that you use Nicholas and his body as an example ...

Second: AI has a rule too - it's "garbage in, garbage out"

Third: So, with the mukbanger example, and AI, this piece lands as a meta-example of the human body, with APIs and engineers functioning as cells and organs and other systems doing anything to keep the system alive which is generally the body's first priority when it gets into extremes... We humans will manually do this with RXs to resolve here and there, and these are bandaids...

The web, as a body itself and the creators, as you acknowledge, must do the inner work and intentional approach. I am left wondering if and when the electricity is low and the coal's burned away things might be different ... that there's more intentionality because we'll have to be constrained.

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