Writing and AI

I have a document that is one of my most precious possessions.

I call it my “Sci-Fi Compendium.”

It's a Google Doc (since this pre-dates my digital notes app) of all the notes and quotes I’ve taken from the science fiction books I’ve read over the years ... These “sunk costs” are your unfair advantage! ... knowledge that not everyone can access with... See more

Writing Strategies

Tiago Forte

I realized I wasn't just using AI as a tool—I was using it as a therapist, a coach, a mirror that reflected back patterns I couldn't see myself.

My real breakthrough came with what I call my "Daily 5"—five minutes each day where I stream-of-consciousness dump whatever's churning in my mind into a conversation with an AI. At first, it felt... See more

Zettels July 2025

pattern recognition

Case in point: My best LLM-assisted short story is a straight-up transposition of an H. P. Lovecraft story to a different key. This is basically like buying into the S&P 500 of 20th century fiction. It is also among my best stories, period. For me, beating the S&P 500 of fiction is going to be hard. Doing passive++ investing in it is going to be... See more

A Random Walk Down Meme Street

A Random Walk Down Meme Street: Living in cultural index-fund Mary Sue civilizations Venkatesh Rao May 01, 2025

textual and video extended universes

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https://github.com/GAIR-NLP/ASI-Arch

cf. writing with ai assistance - various coaches together

In emergent storytelling systems, authorship is distributed. The designer or writer creates a system of possibilities and symbols rather than a fixed sequence. Then the player’s presence and choices in that system bring about specific story moments. Researcher Hartmut Koenitz, for instance, argues that interactive digital narratives demand new

However, we can begin the process of constructing AIs that are coming into communion with individual humans.

Now, this has three elements to it, one element. ... the opportunity to produce what would be a perfectly personal AI, and by that I mean it’s literally the hardware is in your control and in your physical location, and it is biometrically... See more

Capacities

Jordan Hall on AI, the Commons, and the Church ----- Jim Rutt Show ep 284

. Large Models are surprisingly effective at abstracting subtle and nonobvious patterns in texts and images. This suggests that such technologies could be used to find novel patterns in text and images that crisscross the space of human knowledge and culture, including patterns invisible to any particular human. We may require new systems that... See more

April 2025 Articles

Large AI Models are Cultural and Social Technologies Henry Farrell 3.13.2025

pattern recognition

This report took a while to write and not because it’s long and in an essay style I don’t normally use for reports. What took so long is that I wrote it with the help of AIs (Grok 3, GPT4.5). I chose this style as a way for me to experiment with writing another book with an AI as my co-writer. After some lengthy experimentation with how to get the... See more

Writing Movies