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Michael O. Church
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Michael O. Church writes 72 Degrees North, a personal blog at antipodes.substack.com about writing, culture and philosophy. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael O. Church's essays on AI and literature, publishing and reading. Commenters cite the AI-and-literature essay as a long, in-depth analysis of how AI will affect writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Cats, communism, literature, and technology. Click to read 72 Degrees North, by Michael O. Church,
Most-linked posts?
- /p/ai-will-kill-literature-and-ai-will3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Even worse, there are a lot of writers I know who go through the publishing process and the first person to actually read the manuscript is the copy editor. You’d think people in publishing read, but no… A landmark study of this, pertaining to literary agents, was just published today: https://antipodes.substack.com/p/literary-agents-dont-read-h...
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on “What's happening to reading?”Submitted Paul Graham Is Not a Public Intellectual as a story · 189 points
HN discussionHere’s a long but interesting essay by a credible AI programmer arguing that AI will be writing bestsellers by 2030, although “true literature” will still be written by humans: https://antipodes.substack.com/p/ai-will-kill-literature-and...
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on “ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving”And because, inevitably, there is someone in the crowd who is blinded by the tech and screaming “judge it for the quality” … No, that would be a waste of time. This essay, which is the most in-depth analysis of this problem I’ve found so far, suggests that we’ll have to find an automated way to filter for quality, because AI-generated content is only going to get more sophisticated: https://antipodes.substack.com/p/…
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on “Clarkesworld AI Submissions Update”Thus far the most insightful take I have found comes from none other than Michael O. Church: https://antipodes.substack.com/p/ai-will-kill-literature-and...
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on “The LLM Problem”One of HN’s old favorites wrote a long essay in which he predicts that professional writing up to the level of the bestselling novel will be done by AIs, although real literature (by his idiosyncratic definition) will not be. The essay is here: https://antipodes.substack.com/p/ai-will-kill-literature-and... . He argues that the respected curators and institutions of literature and art will actually become targets of…
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on “What ChatGPT Reveals about the Collapse of Support for Higher Education”