/lit/ - Literature

Why do authors love suicide so much?

What’s his best book?

>>14647312
The average length of a novel is 60-90 thousand words.

If you can consistently maintain a pace of 2.5k words, you'll have a finished first draft after about a month, which for novel writing is an outstanding pace.

>>14544927
>The contemporary West is so inept we struggle with the basic maintenance of our infrastructure.
It is not prioritized because such projects are expensive in the short term, and only bear fruits 10-20 years in the future. It takes a large-minded political administration to approve projects which will outlast them. We don't have one of those right now.

>there will be no robots to conquer us, rescue us, or whatever.
Robots don't need to conquer you, you're thinking in terms of Hollywood when you need to think in terms of your school or job. Revolutionary changes happen in the workplace, not the war room.
>If you work in an office shuffling papers from point A to point B, you are an inefficiency that AI and automation will handily cut down.
>If you work on a small or medium sized farm, or construction site, or other job involving moving objects from point A to point B, manual laborers are expensive, don't want to work all night, need shift changes and breaks, demand things like salaries, vacations, insurance, and fair, nondiscriminatory treatment. International labor is the temporary patch to support business while this machine labor gets off the ground in America as its cheaper replacement.
>If you work at a school, video-recorded lectures and their easy distribution will ultimately replace your professor, as it is far easier to pay a professor once to teach a course, record it, play it back forever, and have the professors focus on research and grants, with underpaid grad students answering questions.

At no point will robots with guns PHYSICALLY destroy you, guns and bullets are expensive and lives are cheap. But, your job is not long for this world, and you will ultimately be the obsolete precursor to the immortal, sensing, grasping, working, and thinking machines we will create.

There will be no notable job left for you, besides perhaps creative ones, but even then, you see signs like https://play.aidungeon.io/ hinting at a future where this, too, is managed by AI, and will be good enough for most. People still consuming human creativity will do so as an affectation and hipster interest, once there actually is a choice between comparable "robot" vs "human" output, because the robot input's going to be WAY cheaper, more plentiful, and (ultimately) better.

The only people who will succeed in this structure are capital, and the "weak male" who will, for some brief time (50-200 years prior to obsolescence), service the machines.

Is it okay for me to skip Hemingway?