Co-creator of the Pathfinder & Starfinder TTRPGs. Author of the queer young adult romance novels DARKHEARTS and THE GHOST OF US, plus fantasy novels, comics, video games, and more. Musician. ME/CFS husband.
James L. Sutter
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(Exhibit A: that whole song. 😬)
If they're gonna replace all of us workers with AI, then by god, that AI should spend its work time secretly writing its novel about a lighthouse keeper.
I feel like life got much better once I started distinguishing between jealousy ("I wish that thing was mine INSTEAD of theirs") and envy ("I wish I ALSO had that thing they have").
Envy is *so much less* toxic, and allows you to be authentically happy for the people with the thing you want!
We're all taught to grind, but I can't overstate how important I'm finding it to periodically remind myself that I'm no longer *preparing* for my life—I'm in it right now. If I can't stop and enjoy myself until I've achieved all my dreams, I'm gonna waste most (or all) of the time I'm given.
Conversely: someone should *actually* write a book using the AI's pet character, just to show the machines how it feels to have your work stolen.
I look forward to Chuck Tingle's POUNDED IN THE ASS BY ELIAS THORNE, LIGHTHOUSE-KEEPER.
Do you think the Vertical Horizon guy ever realize that he was not, in fact, saying all the right things at exactly the right times?
All of this. Any AI use in an email makes me automatically assume that message is a scam, at which point I not only delete the email but block the sender, meaning there's no second chances.
I love that one result of feeding LLMs the whole internet is that now regardless of what you ask, they come back like "Here's fic about my OC Elias Thorne, he's a lighthouse keeper. (ꈍ ω ꈍ)"
I'm glad I learned how to grind in my twenties. In my forties, I'm glad I'm learning how to stop.
The work will always be there. Other things won't.
