Ruthvik Peddawandla

10 years later I learned, from a mix of reading Keith Johnstone’s Impro and messing around with Gendlin focusing and circling, that I have access to multiple language-generation processes, and they seem to be localized in different parts of my body. What I was used to doing was generating words using my head. But I learned I could generate words us... See more

He writes that the workbook needs to be “so unpresumptuous and undemanding and is intended to sustain like the mellowest woman almost any number of my peculiarities.”

Head words are civilized words, domesticated words, RLHF’d words. The part of me that learned how to generate language like this learned how to do it in school, in order to pass classes. Head words are mostly bullshit. And LLMs are tracer dye for places in society where language production was already mostly bullshit. It was completely predictable ... See more

“Have you tried doing less on the problem?” is an underrated strategy to get unstuck. Most people try to do more.

Sasseen writes that “there is an immersive quality to the internet, the Wikipedia rabbit holes and the endless link trees, that the affectless writing that has become the house style of online life fails to capture... It’s in the sorting of the information, the understanding of how this information gets filtered into the very structures of our lang... See more

Whereas the autofictional narrator establishes an autocracy over the world they relate, like an influencer who won’t respond to their followers, the author of the database novel calls their own authority into question. This reduces the distance between reader and writer, the latter encouraging the former to pursue the rhizome that mutually links th... See more