Tag: Creative Writing

Literary Survivorship Bias

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People are lamenting, and not unreasonably so, that people are losing the ability to process literature. However, I believe that A: Such a thing did not really exist, and B: If it did, it was something along the lines of “past generations knew how to ride horses better.”

I think the reason is survivorship bias, which my reading of decades worth of cheap thrillers has shown. Basically, people see the literary works that endured in popular conciousness, not the far cruder ones people actually read.

Melancholy Halloween

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Happy Halloween from the zombie sorceresses.

It feels a little melancholy regarding this blog. Like I’m just losing more will to post on it. But it doesn’t feel like writers block. It feels like I’ve honestly accomplished what I set out to do here.

In any event, I’ll be busy writing (hopefully) my next book in the coming month, so possibly expect even less activity here.

Text LLMs

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Not despite but because I’m a writer, I’m looking more at text AI LLMs/models and using them. Why? Well, we have to go back to Leopold Stokowski, a legendary conductor who supposedly saw one of the first sound mixers and went “uh, so what do you need me for?” He of course then got to work studying and using them, knowing he couldn’t be left behind from this combination threat and opportunity. Image AI generators have been beautiful for me because they didn’t overlap. Writing ones do overlap, which is why I’m finding them interesting.

Part of the reason (besides knowing they’re just a rich man’s autocomplete dependent entirely on inputs) I was less panicky about AI is because my family has lived through a lot of creative technical changes already. Musicians may not like and not use synthesizers if they can help it, but they have to know how they work. Same for writing.