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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Apologies, late seeing this. I was attempting to describe the lack of cynicism in Brian Wilson’s work regarding the beauty of the tropes of mid-century American suburbia that, when taken to its extreme, felt like it made the work land, to m
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Any links / pointers on further reading? Would love to read more on this.
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
+1 - when I read GP's comment, and thought: "who composes music that it sounds like to be alive right now?", Burial was my first thought. Maybe this opinion is a little dated - Burial started a couple of decades ago now - I&#
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I completely understand what you mean - and that there's certainly a psychological weight to the complexity we've added to interpersonal interaction over the last half-century. Spending extended time in cash-focused, relatively lo
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I wasn't there - I won't politically nitpick about the innocence of the period - and to do so would also be wildly inappropriate to the very sad topic. But positively, and optimistically, I do think things are passed on, even if w
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I understand that point of view. Perhaps this is contextually useful - when writing prose fiction, one technique I've played with recently which I found interesting is generating a really broad spectrum of 'next tokens' halfw
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I'm confused by this response. I'm fascinated by the question because Joyce (and the other Modernists) are all dead, as you say. Were they alive, it wouldn't be a question - we'd be able to see how they used new technolo
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
> "but I just have a feeling AI is going to be more widely adopted to pump out passable (or even arguably "good") content" Absolutely! And, as you say - the vast majority of books are already written to be passable-en
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I typed "Lynchian" then deleted it - it's overused, but, for Brian Wilson (and Lynch - a compliment to them both) I think, in hindsight, it's appropriate, just about.
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Ah, fair enough. I believe quite strongly that creative works' meaning exists for the reader / audience / user. I don't think interpretation of art is towards an authorial, authoritative truth - rather that it's a
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
This is hard to take. Unquestionably, to me, Brian Wilson was the greatest composer of pop music we've ever had. Even Wilson's most recent work - when he was very clearly suffering a lot - is so deeply interesting, and weird, and
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I find that a technique that provides (some) honesty is uploading a file called '[story title] by [recently deceased writer the prose is stylistically influenced by]' and prompting something like: "I'm editing a posthumo
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Wow! Why? Personally, I'm fascinated by the question of what Joyce would have done with SillyTavern. Or Nabokov. Or Burroughs. Or T S Eliot, who incorporated news clippings into Wasteland - which feels, to me, extremely analogous wit
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Ah got you! Makes sense, and makes it so much more clear. Thanks. In that case, I totally retract my crit in my prev comment. Appreciate it. So - just so I completely understand - the variant we're calling 897ccd25-4776-4077-a9e6-0da34
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I'm struggling a bit to understand the difference between the reported results in the blog post and the examples in the Github. The blog states: > "Alpha Writing demonstrates substantial improvements in story quality when evalu
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
(Of course Ali & Stone were both generationally-talented communicators, but) there is such a stark difference between the sincerity and honesty with which difficult questions - race, reparations for slavery, etc - are being approached b
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Not GP, though I agree with their views, and make my money from copyrighted work (writing novels). The role of the artist has always been to provide excellent training data for future minds to educate themselves with. This is why public l
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I would love to write video games (novelist by day-job). The formal possibilities are absolutely fascinating, and so wide, and getting wider by the day with LLMs. ‘Disco Elysium’ is one of the most interesting works of literature I’ve ‘re
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Off topic, somewhat: Bukowski’s work - especially the late work - will always be bound, for me, to a boy I knew when I was 16/17 who I’ll call Martin. Martin was very thin, short, with an already-receding hairline, flaking skin, and ti
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I think there's a really fundamental misunderstanding of the playing field in this case. (Disclaimer that my day job is 'author', and I'm pro-piracy.) We need to frame this case - and ongoing artist-vs-AI-stuff -using a
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by gabriel666smith 2y ago
That’s interesting. I’d love to read those papers, if you remember what they were. I do wonder if an in-house aesthetic can become ‘tacky’ in the age of global media - can trends ‘die’ when there are still billions more people to reach? And
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by gabriel666smith 2y ago
> “… automation became imperative. The intricacies of color and framing management, along with deliverables, must be seamlessly controlled and effortlessly managed by the user, without the need for manual intervention. Therefore, we cann
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by gabriel666smith 2y ago
I think that a vocation - artistic or otherwise - creates a place of safety in any kind of chaos. Life can be as bad as it is, but so long as you believe: “on the page, things are good”, you can always go to work. I’m not sure if suffering
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by gabriel666smith 2y ago
I love Tom Wolfe; I’d not connected his out-of-vougeness to the recent preference for ‘truthiness’ in reporting the reviewer identifies. I remember reading him at ~13 - my dad gave me a copy of ‘The Pump House Gang’, and told me something t
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