Susan Cain

And by the way, I recently learned that apparently writing in phrases of three is also apparently an AI tell.

And I feel like I learned that painstakingly from loving C.S.

Lewis and reading his work and trying to figure out what it was that was so moving about it and then realizing that he used those threes.

So I'm very bummed.

about that now being a tell but yeah in the case of stories I don't know there's just something on social media when they're when the stories are too packaged and they're you too much feel like every beat follows the next one somehow you just know there's there's just some note of artificiality about it hmm

But I must say, as a writer, knowing that, I have noticed now when I do my substacks that sometimes I'll add an awkward parenthetical or something.

And it used to be that I would have, as a writer, taken the time to get rid of the awkwardness of it.

And now I sometimes leave it in just to show that I'm actually the one who was doing the writing, which is ridiculous.

Proof of your humanity, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

But I mean, I don't know.

One big question I wonder about all the time is,

I've been really worried about the death of the humanities in our culture.

Like long before AI came around, I've been super worried about that.

And there's a million reasons that it's happening.

But I'm actually wondering if the advent of AI is actually going to help or cause us to turn towards the humanities.

I think this is something I've heard you talk about as well.

It's like, that's all that's left.

I've been thinking of it in terms of the revenge of the humanities.

Yeah.