Pretty sure if you gave me a year I could write Shakespeare quality work.

why do we not have thespian marseys

joyce

JOYCE

People circlejerk Shakespeare a little too much, but the idea that anybody could bang that out is laughable. When he says average people couldn't tell the difference, he's banking on the fact that average people are r-slurs. They would just see complex language and go "woowww!"

This reminds me of some smug cute twink who made a test to see if people could tell random passages of Peepeeens from the guy who wrote the "dark and stormy night" opening. I got 8/10 despite having only read two Peepeeens novels, one as a child. In addition to Peepeeens having a recognizable style even with all context, character, and plot stripped away (ie. the stuff that actually makes him good), the other author wasn't particularly bad either--just purple. People pretend ornate prose is bad because they're too r-slurred to follow an interesting sentence (hot take !bookworms).

Of course, even if you could create "more Shakespeare" it wouldn't be as impressive, because you would already have the exact formula for what you are trying to create, from major plot elements to subtle jokes and symbols. You can even reference cuckold horns or coxcombs or whatever because you have been taught a bunch of 1600 era references. A better question is whether you can create something in the language of today that anyone will think is worth reading in 400 years, and I guarantee that this cute twink cannot.

Is literature declining? It seems likely. Just 100-200 years ago, the average literate person was a serious reader. That's not so today. The complexity of typical books has also clearly decreased, even setting aside trends in style or the obscurity of old-timey references. The efforts of our most talented creators are also split in more directions due to the development of new media.

To be neurodivergent or to be a drug addict. That is the question one musteth ponder.

What a peepeerider. Mediocrity inspires the most outlandish copes

idk about that particular r-slur but there's something there about the fact that someone is celebrated just because they're celebrated.

The rationalist/LW/EA/Motte sphere seems completely incapable of appreciating art, their worst blind spot being literature. For all their WORDSWORDSWORDSing they value skillful writing very little. Big Yud's autism cult considers fan fiction high art, valuing it above actual literature most of the time. There's some strange connection between autism and fan fiction.

If it were up to these freaks, they'd immediately replace all artists with AI. I really want to effortpost about all this, but unfortunately I am just a passing observer with only scraps of insight to go by.

According to science neighbors, the population of humankind for 90% of civilisation was almost a flat line, then it skyrocketed in the last 2-3 centuries.

If according to SBF tier r-slurs, all the innovations and greatest achievements of humankind came after the inflection, and the red lines mark the inflection, then doesn't that track logically that the innovations in the time period bounded by the red line should be the greatest innovations of all time. Since the innovations in that time period led to the development of all subsequent innovations which according to SBF are better than previous innovations. But that can't possibly be the case since by the previous logic those later innovations are sub standard compared to the one bounded in red.

Get rekt SBF. Die with your BayesBIPOC logic, strag

!r-slurs

It gives me a warm feeling to be constantly reminded that rationalists are bar none the most r-slurred people on the planet.

>literature is just a combination of letters. Give a monkey a typewriter and there is a chance that it'll create the best literature known to mankind.

This is his energy ^

I hope he's baiting.

On a similar note, the rationalist/motte cope of reducing everything into their STEM-poisoned ideology is dumb. And now they're coming for art and literature.

“you are just a non-stemcel seething”

Theoretical mathematicians and physicists are usually quite cultured. It's the software engineers and their ilk that fall into STEMcute twinkry.

no one is close to being as intelligent as von neumann. obviously severe dysgenic fertility has dulled human intelligence over the past 150 years.

Do chuddy chuds really believe that 150 years of dysgenics across hundreds of millions of people was enough to reverse millions of years of natural selection?

This guy is a lolcow with an academic pedigree for sure.

Chuds needs to realize that white women have doomed the white race with their wickedness and that the only way to change this is to lead them by example and transition

Snapshots:

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• archive.org

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https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1710735038621602211#m:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

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https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1711209801785761877#m:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

do these r-slurs not understand that 90% of the human condition, whether that be scientific progress or literature is entirely derivative from what people've done before others

same shit as those r-slurs that go "Einstein just got all the low hanging fruit"

"If you gave me a year I could write Shakespeare"

~Richard Hanania, 33

Ok so why haven't you?

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-you-should-preorder-my-book

This post seemed like meglomaniacal NPD ranting when I read it. Good to see that confirmed rather than it just being irony.

Modern art is much better than Renaissance shit

Hamlet is one of my favorite stories but the ending sucks. Not the death scene, but Fortinbras coming in and yapping on. He did deliver the line "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" which is important so that we get Tom Stoppard's work, but they could have delivered that line before Hamlet's duel.

Fyi, Hanania, does NOT like it when you reply or quote tweet him libgen links to his newly released book.