Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
To the extent that writing creates a form of non-biological memory — an external system for storing symbolic information — to roughly the same extent, I think, many forms of AI constitute forms of non-biological attention, external systems for selecting, ranking, filtering, and reweaving fields of information around what's salient or important.
Attention Machines and Future Politics
We do good work for those who are doing good work in the world.
That sort of positioning feels good and it resonates with many prospective clients (and your team), but there are two problems with it:
There are a thousand firms claiming that space, and thus it has become a distinction without a difference.
It's a positioning built on an affinity (or so... See more
That sort of positioning feels good and it resonates with many prospective clients (and your team), but there are two problems with it:
There are a thousand firms claiming that space, and thus it has become a distinction without a difference.
It's a positioning built on an affinity (or so... See more
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We could understand a story as simply a series of such expectation/resolution moments.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Complication resolution. Only trouble is interesting. Why pay attention to somebody who’s content, who has no reason to act, no challenge to meet and nothing to teach us about coping with the world. Resolution is the ultimate aim of every story. The resolution releases, the dramatic tension created as the protagonist struggles with the complication
... See moreA sympathetic character who drives the story forward is the protagonist. The protagonist is an active player who takes action to achieve a desire, overcoming antagonist or solve a problem. The protagonist is the person who makes things happen. Storycraft.
A plot is a series of events, deliberately arranged so as to reveal their dramatic thematic and emotional significance. Plot unfolds as a pattern of cause and effect, and winds its way through a series of plot points defined by Robert McKee as any development that sends the story spinning off in a new direction. A list of plot points give you what
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google.comNow the shift from AI curated to AI created happens inside private AI chats. Instead of selecting from that common shelf of public posts, the AI system generates the narrative, the examples, the “context,” the emotional framing just for you. A belief can congeal around outputs that exist only in your chat history. There is no public post to label o... See more