alt Hacker NewsEven if the machine books are indistinguishable from meat books, why would you want to read something that didn’t come from someone’s heart?
Even if the machine books are indistinguishable from meat books, why would you want to read something that didn’t come from someone’s heart?
I think about this a lot. For me, non-fiction stories hit way harder. I read a book about Amelia Earhart last month, and KNOWING it happened to a REAL HUMAN made the book 10x more powerful than a work of fiction about a lost pilot would feel. The same with documentaries; I love them because they happened.
However, I still watch movies about made-up things! TV shows that were written by a roomful of writers, all arguing and compromising, then taking notes from suits and producers, and making more compromises up to the day of shooting, even the day of editing! What comes out of that process is complete fiction, written by not-a-single-human-heart but rather a messy mash-up of humans combining their gibberish.
And sometimes it's still good. And I love it. Even though it isn't "real" and didn't come from a "real person."
So ... people may love a meat-book more in the future, but people will also love machine-books. Not you, by the sounds of it. But there are people not-you on Earth as well.