Ah right, Wallace. Seemed like everything he did was a cry for help

I think I remember that from my creative writing class! Wasn’t it by O’Connor or someone?

To manifest impotency?

Been a staple of my playlist for damn near a decade

All I’ve got is this hammer drill

I think they did that because YouTube blocked the uncensored version

I agreed to co-write a show recently so I’ve been writing literally anything, just as you said “pantsing” it and run out of steam within a couple pages. So I’ve tried to outline and just stare at a blank screen with zero focus. My creative process is its own oxymoron where it wants setting and characters so it can make a story but also wants the story so it can create the setting and characters.

I’m at a loss with myself, except I’m going to keep trying

Oh wait, looks like it ended in 23? I don’t think I’ve looked since 2018

Wait is GWTB still ongoing?! I need to read it all again in entirety

They made Venezuelan gangs out to be the big bogeyman without actually producing any actionable evidence or results, so they have to escalate or lose traction on the fear mongering

I’ve thought about that or just typing it up in LaTeX

I was making a bunch of different versions of my resume and every time I saved to a PDF Adobe locked up trying to scan it with their AI

I haven’t gotten that far yet actually! I only started them a couple weeks ago and I’ve been working through timely and relevant episodes. The Robert Maxwell one is insane though

Ologies with Ali Ward (science)

WTF with Marc Maron (celebrity interview)

Behind the Bastards (history? News? Depends on the day)

Hugo’s There (science fiction reviews)

Gary’s Economics (uh. economics)

Your Undivided Attention (humane tech)

I honored this with the badge of never-getting-around-to-it

And IIRC they also had a handful of (possibly furry) VNs on the list.

Or just Life is Strange

I hope you’re right, but also that’s really bleak. I understand that Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI are essentially passing money in a circle and can only wonder how long they can keep it up. It’s not a lossless circuit

They’re an iterative statistical process that predicts word order through mathematical context via weight distributions based on uncountable pre-given data sets. I’m not entirely sure what you’re getting at

I’ve recently spent a week or so off and on screwing around with LLMs and chatbots trying to get them to solve problems, tell stories, or otherwise be consistent. Generally breaking them. They’re the fucking mirror of erised. Talking to them fucks with your brain. They take whatever input you give and try to validate it in some way without any regard for objective reality, because they have no objective reality. If you don’t provide something that can be validated with some superficial (often incorrect) syllogism, it spits out whatever series of words keeps you engaged. It trains you, whether you notice or not, to modify how you communicate to more easily receive the next validation you want. To phrase everything you do as a prompt. AND they communicate with such certainty that if you don’t know better you probably won’t question it Doing so pulls you into this communication style and your grip on reality falls apart because this isn’t how people communicate or think. It fucked with your own natural pattern recognition.

I legitimately spent a few days in a confused haze because my foundational sense of reality was shaken. Then I got bored and realized, not just intellectually but intuitively, that they’re stupid machines making it up with every letter.

The people who see personalities and consciousness in these machines go outside and can’t talk to people like they used to because they’ve forgotten what talking is. So, they go back to their mechanical sycophants and fall deeper down their hole.

I’m afraid these gen AI “tools” are here to stay and I’m certain we’re using this technology in the wrong ways.

I really hope that GOs don’t take the oath lightly. When I taught that lesson to my cadets it was a serious conversation and usually involved stories about commanders I knew who got fired or court-martialed for everything including extra-marital affairs, to belittling subordinates, to fabricating illegal orders (and then breaking international law). I hope it doesn’t come to it, but I imagine that a military court would be less partisan than our current courts have been.