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Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
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#62Grifter publishing-slop sector devastated by slop automation.
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#63everyone has their own contribution to this observation
but how is everyone missing the enormous amount of self published slop released since 2022?
that stuff actually is selling, diluting the interest in the rest
its the law of diminishing returns
this may coincide with people also realizing they bought slop, as well as all the other distractions and ways of consuming that people identified
but just like software is experiencing this year, the same has been occurring in writing for 4 years
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#64Personally, I see the self-help industry dying because people are starting to realize that it’s just a network of individuals selling products, promoting each other’s products, and creating new avenues to sell more products. I refer to it as the “self-help mafia.” Tim Ferriss kind of created it.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
The right 15 seconds of video can be extremely helpful with household tasks. I'm thinking specifically of super-tactile ones like getting such-and-such panel off the car or appliance so that you can get at the bit you're looking to replace. Those can really be worth a thousand words. Of course I'd prefer a blog post with many looping, silent 5-15 second gifs and no extraneous like-and-subscribe and life-story-deliver…
> Of course I'd prefer a blog post with many looping, silent 5-15 second gifs and no extraneous like-and-subscribe and life-story-delivery. But c'est la vie. This feels like something you could vibe code up (creating the blog posts from YouTube videos). Fascinating times.
Perhaps, but the recently shared vibe-coded blog posts I've seen on HN have been… not that great.
Wouldn't be surprised if this is viable by next year though.
Between the bloat and bad UI in both modern OSes and modern websites, I'm seriously considering if my next OS will be a command line pointing to an LLM where most web browsing is rendered out in plain text (perhaps LCARS, just for fun?), and any apps that actually need a UI are just-in-time generated as each feature is needed.
After all, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VibeOS already exists.
Re: Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
#66Grifter publishing-slop sector devastated by slop automation.
Finally AI-skeptics found something positive
Re: Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
#67Personally, I see the self-help industry dying because people are starting to realize that it’s just a network of individuals selling products, promoting each other’s products, and creating new avenues to sell more products. I refer to it as the “self-help mafia.” Tim Ferriss kind of created it.
Dale Carnegie created it, Tim Ferriss is a century too late to point as origin.
Dale Carnegie -> Jim Rohn -> Tony Robbins -> [all hacks now]
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#68Re: Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dale Carnegie created it, Tim Ferriss is a century too late to point as origin.
Dale Carnegie -> Jim Rohn -> Tony Robbins -> [all hacks now]
the man leveraged the fact that his name was the same as Andrew Carnegie (having no relation) to launch a publishing empire. it was hacks from the beginning