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The war between the old world and the new world rages on, behind the paywall this week.

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Supposedly, the unencumbered advance of AI has already reduced the artistic process to a mindless A to B task, like assembling an IKEA KALLAX unit or dumping bleach down a clogged drain, thus exterminating all pleasure of creative self-expression from our lives. And yet, every week I stumble across at least one combination of words that, for better or worse, has never been put together before. The latest dispatch from VICE’s roving reporter Nick Dove contains at least half a dozen sentences that anyone with a well calibrated nervous system would need to read thrice in order to comprehend. For instance: “Ronny Fernandez, Lighthaven’s former manager, and Aella, the sex-positive writer and escort famous for her erotic trendcasting and 2024 birthday gangbang, organized the Torture Potluck together.”

The context only adds another entry to the hall of deranged word combinations: Nick went to a party in Berkeley hosted by the Bay Area Rationalist community, who gathered in a liminal-looking astroturfed garden to debate “x-risk” (existential risk), drink Everclear, and waterboard each other for fun. For those wondering what........

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