That point in the revision process where you have no idea how much you've done and how close you are to finished.
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That point in the revision process where you have no idea how much you've done and how close you are to finished.
This goes for any author you want to support, especially indie authors who are less likely to get automatically added to a library's catalog. Requesting books you're excited about helps libraries, authors, and other readers.
This feels real close to being a medical device. Will be interesting to see what the FDA has to say.
"LLMs simply don't make mistakes like the ones you see here in this passage from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy" is jokerizing
My favorite fantasy trilogy!
I think it's much, much, much more likely that a cockroach is conscious than it is that Claude is conscious. By many orders of magnitude.
One more thing: if you want to actually learn about technologies that are getting closer to what I would think of as synthetic thinking, check out what Deepmind is doing with Dreamer danijar.com/project/drea...
...I'm not denying the utility of LLMs. It seems like they are genuinely useful for a narrow band of stuff, and it is impressive technology. But it doesn't even approximate thought.
...what LLMs do and how they do it. We may not have all the internal weighting info available, but we understand how they work. They don't think. They just predict the next word.
If your model of consciousness doesn't involve thinking then that's fine, but I doubt many would agree with it...
I really dislike this argument.
We don't need to have a complete understanding of consciousness (much in the same way we don't have a complete understanding of, say, quantum mechanics) to disprove nonsense assertions about it.
There is no world where LLMs are conscious. We know...
The dumbest people on the planet in control of the largest military
Picture of a page from Wind and Truth. "...concerned about what Iyatil is plotting." "Mmm... Do you think she has a graph, or..."
Laughed out loud at this.
#windandtruth #wayofkings #brandosando
Please do not be naive about what the CEOs of these AI companies say. They know it's not sentient. They're not anthropomorphizing it at work.
They're just trying to con their way into another round of VC funding.
This can't be real, right?
Right?
I have finished Fool's Fate. It was excellent.
The whole trilogy was excellent. Sophisticated, dripping with wit and experience and grace.
I loved it.
#booksky #elderlings #fantasy #robinhobb #genius
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to be affluent NYT op-ed columnists who are never in any danger of being fired.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
You can just say things.
Not 'stolen'; stolen. They were stolen!
Lacks had no idea they were taken and didn't provide consent for the procedure, which was painful and unnecessary. They were stolen!
Favorite album cover:
Watching people react to Jeff Buckley for the first time on YouTube until I feel whole
Its ~100k. At this point I'm just looking for general developmental advice, overall story and character issues, basic structure stuff.
Thank you! I have a few people lined up. This is the first book I gotten into a place where its ready to be shared so we will see if i want to expand after getting some feedback.
Thank you!!
Anyways it feels amazing to be done.
Highly recommend finishing a novel draft if you're in a bad mood.
#booksky #writing #fantasy
...but, to be fair, I'm kind of trying to invent the fantasy espionage genre here.
Hopefully one day it comes and people can read it!
For now: onto more edits, showing it to beta readers, and continuing to make it something I'm proud of.
Well, I didn't stay on top of updating this, but I finished! Draft 2.5 is in the can.
Massive rewrites, waaay more than I thought I would do. Huge changes to structure and pacing. 103k words.
#books #fantasy #writing
It's taking a lot of time, but...
Finished Holly by Stephen King.
It's always nice to read a book by someone who simply knows their business, an expert craftsman, and King is definitely that. The book sustained my interest without any real central mystery, no small feat.
It was, of course, gross. Banality of evil and all that.
Cosi is the rare Mozart opera where the catchiness of every song works against the opera as a whole. It's literally too much to sit through in one night.
Rigoletto is one of about four or five perfect operas imo, along with marriage of Figaro, tosca, and maybe Romeo and Juliet (?)
[Bill Simmons voice]: Is Charles I having a moment?