The Devil's Digital Dictionary

A wild experiment

With the specter of generative AI threatening to make writers like me obsolete, I’ve been considering more experimental kinds of writing; stuff too wild for the robots to replicate.

One project I’ve begun work on is a modern successor to Ambrose Bierce’s 1906 classic, The Devil’s Dictionary. This book eschewed traditional dictionary definitions and instead offered satirical ones to highlight the absurdity of society. For instance:

LOVE (n): A temporary insanity curable by marriage…

I’ve begun to develop my own satirical definitions for the modern age, and I’m planning to eventually compile them into a book, tentatively titled The Devil’s Digital Dictionary. It’s still in its fetal stages, and too far from publication to risk showing to all my readers. But, for my cherished paid subscribers, I have enough trust to show a sneak peek of the project, in the form of 40 definitions.

Much of my work can be dense and gloomy, so I’ll try to occasionally mix things up with light-hearted content like this. If these definitions don’t make you think, then I hope they’ll at least make you smile.

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The Devil’s Digital Dictionary: A Teaser

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ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE: A hypothetical machine that terrifies humans because they fear it may one day behave just like them.

BITCOIN: A revolutionary, decentralized, hyper-secure method of melting polar ice caps.

CENSORSHIP: A method of making dangerous information go viral.

CHURCH: A book club that only ever discusses one book.

COOKIES: Like death and taxes, something that everyone must sooner or later accept.