Logan

Citrini Verified account @citrini · Oct 9

Art, as a representation of the last thing humans can be better at than machines, will become more valuable than ever before.

Neil Gaiman’s advice to graduating students seems more apt than when he gave the speech originally:

“Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do.

Make good art.

I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn’t matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.
Make it on the good days too.

And Fifthly, while you are at it, make your art. Do the stuff that only you can do.

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The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are.

So make up your own rules.

Someone asked me recently how to do something she thought was going to be difficult, in this case recording an audio book, and I suggested she pretend that she was someone who could do it. Not pretend to do it, but pretend she was someone who could. She put up a notice to this effect on the studio wall, and she said it helped.

So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Make good art.”

If you’re complaining about AI’s impact on art, it just means you were probably not making only the stuff you can do. And, yes, that will continue to be worth less and less.

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Logan Verified account @logan_larkin · Aug 27

thus passes the glory of the world

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