> Agreed, I feel like there's an inherent nobility in putting effort into something. If I took the time to write a book and have it proof-read and edited and so on: perhaps it's actually worth my time.
Said the scribe upon hearing about the printing press.
I'm not certain what statement you're implying, but yes, accessibility of bookwriting has definitely decreased the quality of books.
Even technical books like Hardcore Java: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hardcore-java/059600568... are god-awful, and even further away from the seminal texts on computer science that came before.
It does feel like authorship was once heralded in higher esteem than it deserves today.
Seems like people agree: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/18cvy9e/rant_bestsel...
Re:I Am Tired of AI
by yoyohello13 on Friday September 27, 2024 @06:20PM
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It's true though. Books hand written and illustrated by scribes were astronomically higher quality than mass printed books. People just tend to prefer what they have access to, and cheap/low quality is easy to access.
Lowering the bar to write books is "good" but increases the noise to signal ratio.
I'm not 100% certain how to give another proof-of-work, but what I've started doing is narrating my blog posts - though AI voices are getting better too.. :\