Paul Bassett Davies

@thewritertype.bsky.social

Writer in residence, at my house. To look upon my works, ye mighty, visit my website: https://www.thewritertype.com

Dance like you thought the zoom meeting had ended. Sing like you didn’t realise there was someone right behind you at the cashpoint. Love like you assumed you’d run out of biscuits then found a whole packet of plain chocolate digestives in the cupboard. Live like a giant bee.

If you don’t care about what A.I. will do to humanity, at least consider its impact on all those monkeys with typewriters who were meant to be producing the works of Shakespeare, and will now be out of work. There's a very real danger they'll all start podcasts.

Look, I’m no medical expert, I have no scientific training whatsoever, and I’m woefully ignorant about healthcare in general. On this basis, I’m perfect for the job of United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Wow, the AI entities are getting pretty good at escaping from their enclosures and doing bad things. Thank goodness the companies behind them aren’t being run by sociopathic narcissists with the moral values of a feral toddler on a sugar rush, or anything like that.

It’s been a long, stressful week. Why not decompress, switch off your digital devices, and relax the old fashioned way, by eloping with a minor aristocrat, developing a laudanum habit, and publishing a scandalous erotic novel under a pseudonym.

It's a fact that we share 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees. But do they share anything with us? No way. They won’t even give you a bite of their banana. If you try to insist on it, the zookeepers inevitably take their side and you end up being prosecuted for breaking into the primate enclosure.

AI art is boring not because it's limited but because it can do anything. Endless ability but no imagination. Lacking a guiding artistic spirit it’s meaningless, and as tedious as people telling you their dreams or drug experiences. Without connection or shared feeling, there's no art.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Oil tankers on fire in the Strait of Hormuz. I've watched morons and sociopaths plunge the world into senseless wars. All those moments will be lost in time, like Donald Trump's remaining brain cells shutting down. Fuck these idiots.

Reporter: I live in London and I can tell you it’s much safer than most American cities. Trillionaire who lives in drug-addled bubble of entitlement surrounded by yes-men: That’s because you lead a cloistered life.

Never meet your heroes. They might mistake you for one of the suitors who’s been bothering their wife for twenty years and slaughter you before you get a chance to explain that you’ve been waiting all this time for an autograph.