Quality Non-Fiction Books Are the Antithesis of AI Slop
Reflecting on my time as a library shelver, I discovered that browsing curated stacks offered a superior form of auto-didacticism compared to modern search engines. To recapture this serendipity, I built a free platform using semantic search to explore 6,500 prize-winning non-fiction titles. This tool helps readers navigate the long tail of high-quality books, proving that the golden age of non-fiction is still alive despite the rise of AI chatbots and declining readership.
In retrospect, I learned more at this job than in any formal class I've ever taken, because it was a filtered form of auto-didacticism.