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It wasn’t when the idiom was coined. Have you seen hard-bound books from the 19th century in libraries?

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didn’t most books look the same back then?

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I don’t know aye, I have read some books that were amazing. Although the cover was really, really bad.

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Whenever there’s a “don’t judge” statement, I always remember this post from Tyler The Creator.

Due to primal instincts, it’s inevitable that we judge. So judge, but don’t discriminate. Seems like a good system to me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Sounds like that uses a loaded connotation of the word discriminate. That word really just means to differentiate things from each other or discern distinct things.

I think a better way to say it would be: “judge, but don’t pre-judge.”

As long as you’re actually judging evidence in front of you, great. If you’re making shortcuts to judgments using superficial cues, that’s where you run into trouble.

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That’s a good way of putting it.

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Maybe book covers should be auto-generated from the entire text fed to an AI artist

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I run Stable Diffusion on my computer, can you think of a relatively short novella to try this with? I have no idea what the limit for tokens is. To really “tech bro” it up we could feed it to an AI summarizer first.

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This seems most appropriate just have it generate one for each short story.

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Yes, but you still don’t know if the content is good or bad.

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