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Even if they can't, individuals are prone to inspiration from an LLMs attempt. Worth giving it a shot at least.
by Circlecrypto2 2y ago
Even if they can't, individuals are prone to inspiration from an LLMs attempt. Worth giving it a shot at least.
- ModernMech 2y agoThis is true, I find LLMs to be the best mental lubricant ever created. Cures writers block and gets me out of creative and technical jams all the time.
- marmaduke 2y agoDevils advocate, writers block and jams are symptoms not bugs to fix
- roninorder 2y agoCould you elaborate? Symptoms of what?
- Comma2976 2y agoWriter's traffic congestion
- throwanem 2y agoNot OP, but much writing advice with which I'm familiar, and my own experience, both suggest these are symptoms of an error made earlier and not yet recognized. If I can't figure out where the plot could possibly go from here, go back and look for where I sent it off the rails earlier such that there's nowhere to take it now; if I can't find dialogue or action that fits, go back and find where I put the character in a situation they'd never get themselves in, or miswrote them to respond to it in a way they never would. Stuff like that, especially once it's had you stuck too long for inspiration latency still to be tenable as the cause.
- marmaduke 2y agoYep and in general I think the matrix got it right when discussing Trinity and Neo's visions, the Oracle states: "We can never see past the choices we don't understand".
- throwanem 2y agoOr have yet to realize that we made, yeah.
- roninorder 2y agoGood advice, thanks!
- marmaduke 2y agoLots of things I think, lack of understanding, lack of motivation. Typical suspects. I think We look for easy solutions like using LLMs for instance (but not exclusively) doing busywork when we shouldn’t be doing the busywork in the first place. Busywork is just example, but in creative non-busywork it could also be the extensive, time intensive exploration required to advance. In jazz for instance spending hundreds if not thousands of hours on scales and arpeggios over the instrument is a non-negotiable expense to access fluidity. So while I think LLMs are great fun and I don’t judge anyone using them, personally wanting to use one for a difficult problem is a flag that I should allow more time to think before going ahead.
- dageshi 2y agoI'm outlining a fantasy story I want to write, I've found using image generation (leonardo.ai) very helpful in nailing down what the world looks like and how it'll work, I've actually changed my mind on a few things based on what the AI generated. Plus honestly it's just genuinely fun! I've resisted moving to one of their paid packages just yet because I think I'd spend all day on it!
- kelseyfrog 2y agoEven if we've essentially created a rubber duck that slightly more easy to engage with, that sounds like a win.
- vunderba 2y agoStrongly agree. Back in high school, I put together a program called DreamPool that would just literally pick out a few nouns from a gigantic dictionary file and bubble them up in a little graphic of a well, and then I would sit quietly and spin those concepts around attempting to connect them together. LLMs are like a version of this on steroids and the potential as a tool for augmentation is huge.
- influx 2y agoDreampool sounds very cool, almost like brain excercise!