- During Gwern's appearance on the Dwarkesh Podcast, he suggests that text we write online *now* is ~the only legacy we'll leave behind, as it gets hoovered up as training data for the machines that will replace us. - That felt bad! Oh my goodness - I need to write!!! - But hang on: I don't often worry about legacy per se, and hadn't thought of this angle before listening to the podcast. If I wasn't worried about legacy before, why now? - Specifically - not just in the event of AI replacing us, but in general https://x.com/patio11/status/1877471128731386164?t=oLLg63akdspQ-3D3am5HCQ&s=09 https://x.com/patio11/status/1877471977914454296?t=eNn7Wkhv_SOCtuoMKWGDig&s=09 https://x.com/edwardbenson/status/1877446311345041608?t=uQHJmNBQ9DVzvCiY39qZbg&s=09 **The humans who _don't_ leave their writing behind** This is essentially a corollary of the above. Here's an interesting thought courtesy of Bridget: "If I was an AI that was instantiated through the sum total of all human writing, I would be _obsessed_ with the humans who didn't write anything." All kinds of "Lacanian" implications on this one! Would make for a great short story or something...