#267 | Erik Hoel; Memories, Causal Emergence, Why AI art isn't real art

“The majority of even good, what one might just consider publishable manuscripts in the United States essentially... is unpublished... it's a very small number of authors now smaller than it's ever been who are making top 100 bestseller lists.”

“Within six to eight months of writing online, I was be able to put out a short story... it ended up getting like 10,000 views... outside of maybe being published in the New Yorker, that's about as much as you could possibly expect from the traditional literary industry.”

“It's like you can get a million readers and that's fine, but... eventually one day my kids will read it, and that to me is like worth a million readers... they get an insight onto their dad at a really deep psychological level.”