Pre-2022 Books

The author acknowledges a subconscious preference for books published before 2022, attributing this bias to the manual effort involved in their creation compared to potentially AI-assisted works published afterward. While recognizing that tool quality shouldn't determine a work's value, they find themselves placing greater weight on pre-2022 books, sensing that the human effort expended somehow matters. The author expresses uncertainty about whether this bias is justified but resists dismissing it as mere technological pessimism.