Made-up people and made-up problems — that’s comforting to me, especially when “real” life (on the news) is disturbing and my personal life is out to pasture.

I know i didn’t do an MFA in Creative Writing (though i’m still thinking about it), but i do enjoy thinking about plot & character & writing. Abstract humanity is more interesting to me than the real thing most of the time. And a computational approach to nearly anything is pretty much always my preference.

Computational Fiction — that’s what floats my boat, especially during this so-called “AI” craze, which touts a statistical model that is *far* from intelligent.

IRL people are more work than the fictional kind — an idea that seems to be becoming more popular with kids raised by/on smartphones.

Maybe i’m a fictional person myself.