DownloadedBear
DownloadedBear t1_j20bs77 wrote
Reply to comment by Love_and_Squal0r in Jeffrey Eugendis Middlesex made me cry 😢 by Love_and_Squal0r
Yeah, I don’t know. Just one of those things you sometimes hear around book spaces. Never actually looked into it before your post made me interested.
Did a quick look around google and saw an intersex advocacy group that seemed broadly positive about it and had more info about the specific condition of the book character, with the usual qualifiers of “there is no one unique experience.” Also found a short review by an intersex reviewer that was very impressed by it.
DownloadedBear t1_j1y4qrb wrote
I’m interested to see all the positive comments. The only thing I’ve ever really heard about it is that the understanding of intersex conditions was wildly outdated at best. Anecdotal and I don’t know how that impacts the reading. I’ve definitely read a lot of things based on “how something was understood at the time,” and been able to take myself out of judging it in modern terms.
All I can say is that I see this book everywhere. It’s in every used bookshop around me all the time. I distinctly remember noticing this cover in book stores as far back as I can remember going to book stores. Hey, Maybe I should check it out.
DownloadedBear t1_iugru01 wrote
Reply to How do you guys read books? by HalboAngel
I’ve never heard anything about worrying about a voice. I find when I read I have an internal narration that puts my conscious thought on the subject. Sometimes I’ll read a line, realize the inflection should be something different and kind of reinternalize it like that. Every once in a while something I read will kick off an other thought that distracts me but I’ll come back and realize I’d kept reading for a bit while thinking of something entirely else and have to go back.
DownloadedBear t1_iugr0cm wrote
I think I just found a penthouse my dad was hiding, didn’t realize there was anything wrong with it, then got in trouble for having it, then I found some old western romance novels my mom was hiding and that had all the descriptions I needed to put the penthouse in context
DownloadedBear t1_j6h1ptd wrote
Reply to Can AI replace the authors? by [deleted]
The short answer is no, or at least not today.
The current AI writers are somewhere between bad to mediocre. Like one passed an MbA exam but that’s honestly speaking more to the difficulty of MBA exams.
The writing prompts are basically all just making reasonable sounding but wrong essays right now. They can mimic writing styles if that’s something included in the data inputs that were used to train it. It’s kind of like a scenario where they can be good as displaying information but they are not actually good at imparting knowledge and creative thought is not really quantifiably possible for machine learning, though they can probably approach a scary degree of mimicry.
Like I know we call it AI,but that’s only because it’s a more public ally understood concept in entertainment. Reall it’s just machine learning algorithms… and we can’t even get those to give good Spotify recommendations.