trollmore.bsky.social
former mental health worker, current developer, perennial philosophy shitposter. I write fiction about people being bad at their jobs.
read my web serial about military sociologists fighting gods here:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/52503/godslayers
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No, no, nothing that socially and financially benefits me is weird. In fact I think it should be normative.
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That is *such* a good board game. My favorite run was the game where they had pretty much figured out I was a cylon, so instead of revealing myself I started running for president every turn. They wasted so many resources trying to stop me that they started failing crisis events.
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Depending on their circles, they might know people who hate the religion. Some branches of Christianity also heavily invest in an “us-vs-the-world” narrative and imply that it’s easier not to make your faith public, and thus an act of courage to be public about it.
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ur so real for this
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"If you pay me $8 a month, you can make donations in excess of 280 characters!"
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I'd invite you to read up on the transformer architecture of LLMs and compare it to cognitive appropriation models of human learning. The idea that you can lump both processes into a single category called "training" is not an evidence-based position.
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That does not substantively address my comment.
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This argument rests on the assertion that human training and LLM training are the same kind of thing. I would argue that's an equivocation fallacy. You would need to demonstrate that the LLM is engaged in the same kind of cognitive appropriation that underlies human learning for this to hold.
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I'm not saying you can't articulate fresh ideas in your writing or tell stories that haven't been told. I'm saying you're going to have to rely on the tools that other writers have built—the ones you've internalized that taught you what storytelling *is*.
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This is why writers shouldn't try to be original. Being original requires building a new tradition from scratch, and I'm sorry, but you're not based enough to diff the collective effort of generations of intelligent, creative people by yourself.
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wait how much of the genre does that describe? I thought it was just stuff like The Book Thief and whatever the fuck Pynchon was on
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Maw’s a treasure. Love her characterization work.
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Good luck on your queries!
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I once misheard "Love is a forgotten assassin in the back of our minds" and was incensed when I discovered the real lyric used "accessory" instead
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Cancel her! Cancel her!
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This is one step away from my preferred world where gender is another layer of mannerism that you pick up and drop on the fly. I don’t know if that’s actually feasible but it doesn’t seem conceptually impossible.
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I game more than is healthy, so I can't coherently assume a luddite position. But something about the way technology took over this kid's life, replacing his social development opportunities, is making me worry about when I have kids.