"Only way to read human fiction is pre-2024": economists clash over literature's AI fate
alexolegimas · x · 2026-10-12
alexolegimas pushes back on paulnovosad's pessimism, arguing that the epistemic quality of literature's gatekeepers all but guarantees fiction is finished as a human endeavor — the only path being fiction published before 2024. Novosad counters that literature is indeed ripe for disruption and economists shouldn't mistake a transition for an equilibrium.
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