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Maybe George could use it to finish his books instead...

AtlasBarfed 3y ago
Seriously, take an AI that consumes all the speculative stuff written on the various subreddits and other forums and let it crank on an outline and chapters. I have for a while thought that George should simply have the last two books ghostwritten by a team of writers with him as "producer and editor". Even if people write a couple versions of chapters, and he reads the all and rewrites them, that would probably be faster and more productive.
- zB2sj38WHAjYnvm 3y ago
  >faster and more productive
  - user432678 3y ago
    “We are fast paced and dynamic team, live and breathe agile”
- delfinom 3y ago
  I think he's burnt out on writing and doesn't want to admit it to himself. But he probably has no experience "managing" to understand the value in delegating the slog to someone else and instead producing/directing.
- fullsend 3y ago
  Pretty wild take. In what word does someone write some of the greatest fantasy novels of all time and then just hand the last two off to someone else? In the name of “productivity” of all things. This line of thinking sounds like a Hollywood producer trying to crank out hits.
  - chrisdbanks 3y ago
    It's not that wild. Alexander Dumas did collaborate with other writers on some of his most famous works.
  - AtlasBarfed 3y ago
    He's old and on pace to die before finishing them. Look, either he does them, or the publishing house will do some bullshit where a bunch of ... paid ghostwriters "examine his notes" and produce the books. Noooo that wouldn't happen.... (looks at Frank Herbert, JRR Tolkien) ...Absolutely would / will happen.
  - autoexec 3y ago
    > In the name of “productivity” of all things. It's not as if we want him to churn them out faster to maximize his productivity. We just don't want the books left unwritten when he dies! I firmly believe that it's better to not release something unless you're really happy with it even if that means delays. For example, I hate the modern trend of pushing out unfinished broken games and spending the next couple years patching issues that should never have shipped. I hate it when studio imposed schedules driven by marketing concerns compromise the quality of movies and television series. That said, 12 years without progress is a very long time and the man doesn't have much time left. He's been working on this story for over 30 years. I don't know what's holding him up, but getting an author-approved conclusion written by others (even if only as a backup) would be better than the random fan fic we'll be stuck with if he leaves this world without finishing the final two books on his own.
- hooverd 3y ago
  Are you familiar with the back half of the Dune books? Or the back quarter of GoT?
  - AtlasBarfed 3y ago
    Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37592099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37592099

Seriously, take an AI that consumes all the speculative stuff written on the various subreddits and other forums and let it crank on an outline and chapters. I have for a while thought that George should simply have the last two books ghostwritten by a team of writers with him as "producer and editor". Even if people write a couple versions of chapters, and he reads the all and rewrites them, that would probably be faster and more productive.

zB2sj38WHAjYnvm 3y ago
>faster and more productive
- user432678 3y ago
  “We are fast paced and dynamic team, live and breathe agile”
delfinom 3y ago
I think he's burnt out on writing and doesn't want to admit it to himself. But he probably has no experience "managing" to understand the value in delegating the slog to someone else and instead producing/directing.
fullsend 3y ago
Pretty wild take. In what word does someone write some of the greatest fantasy novels of all time and then just hand the last two off to someone else? In the name of “productivity” of all things. This line of thinking sounds like a Hollywood producer trying to crank out hits.
- chrisdbanks 3y ago
  It's not that wild. Alexander Dumas did collaborate with other writers on some of his most famous works.
- AtlasBarfed 3y ago
  He's old and on pace to die before finishing them. Look, either he does them, or the publishing house will do some bullshit where a bunch of ... paid ghostwriters "examine his notes" and produce the books. Noooo that wouldn't happen.... (looks at Frank Herbert, JRR Tolkien) ...Absolutely would / will happen.
- autoexec 3y ago
  > In the name of “productivity” of all things. It's not as if we want him to churn them out faster to maximize his productivity. We just don't want the books left unwritten when he dies! I firmly believe that it's better to not release something unless you're really happy with it even if that means delays. For example, I hate the modern trend of pushing out unfinished broken games and spending the next couple years patching issues that should never have shipped. I hate it when studio imposed schedules driven by marketing concerns compromise the quality of movies and television series. That said, 12 years without progress is a very long time and the man doesn't have much time left. He's been working on this story for over 30 years. I don't know what's holding him up, but getting an author-approved conclusion written by others (even if only as a backup) would be better than the random fan fic we'll be stuck with if he leaves this world without finishing the final two books on his own.
hooverd 3y ago
Are you familiar with the back half of the Dune books? Or the back quarter of GoT?
- AtlasBarfed 3y ago
  Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37592099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37592099