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Not a bad idea.

From a downvoted comment:

Because players aren't sure where a story is going and can't edit previous sections, the stories tend to be plagued by pacing problems- scenes that could be a paragraph are dragged out over pages, important plot beats are glossed over, and so on. It's also very rare that players are able to pull off the kind of coordination necessary for satisfying narrative buildup and payoff, and the focus on player character interaction tends to leave a lot of necessary story scaffolding like scene setting and NPC interaction badly lacking.

If your goal in writing this was in part to promote or socially explore these utopian ideas rather than just to enjoy a forum game, it may be worth considering ways to mitigate these issues- to modify the Glowfic formula to better accommodate an audience.

Yud's response:

We are both experienced authors not in need of this advice at this level.

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and moreover, wat

"Iarwain", cf. Charles' Wain, wainwright; from the Middle English for "a wagon that transports ears"

A free full-cast Audiobook of Planecrash is currently in production [,,.] using AI-generated voices.

maybe we, as a species, deserve what is coming to us

And yet my crossovers of Daria with The Sandman, They Live and the Amelia Peabody series all remain without a TVTropes presence. Where's my uncritical adulation?!

relevant xkcd

Consistent content that helps support people in their everyday lives [...] Just “selected Sequences reading and discussion” could be a reasonable format.

Bible study. You've reinvented Bible study.

wc --tldr

"Knight to e12."

"Queen takes Vampire Bishop."

Yud writing about math is the worst. You get your autodidact problems, because he's never been tested on actually doing calculations. He's always graded his own homework, as it were; all his experience is in rhetorically weaseling out of his mistakes, instead of learning from the red pen. Then you get all the problems that come from "splurging a first draft" out upon his fandom. They miss the mistakes among his meanderings. Quite likely, they lack the experience to detect them, but the beigeness of his prose helps to obscure them anyway. The fan will interpret any confusion as being their own fault, not Yud's, or just dismiss any lack of clarity because the feeling of being special feels so good. So, even if Yud were inclined to learn from meaningful criticism, he's not getting any.

Struggling through Yud's attempt at explaining a basic calculation in quantum mechanics is like reading algebra problems from before algebraic notation was invented.

When the cube with the cose beside it
\ Equates itself to some other whole number,
\ Find two others, of which it is the difference.

Hereafter you will consider this customarily
\ That their product always will be equal
\ To the third of the cube of the cose net.

Its general remainder then
\ Of their cube sides, well subtracted,
\ Will be the value of your principal unknown.

🎶 I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes / Priors all updating until my darkness goes 🎶

epistemic status: 20 milligrams

Suppose there are five true heresies, but anyone who's on the record as believing more than one gets burned as a witch.

Two heresies leave Chicago traveling at 90 km/h and 100 km/h

Jessica asked if Yudkowsky denouncing neoreaction and the alt-right would still seem harmful, if he were to also to acknowledge, e.g., racial IQ differences?

uh

I agreed that that would be better, but realistically, I didn't see why Yudkowsky should want to poke that hornet's nest.

uhhhhhhhhh

If I were to transition today and didn't pass as well as Jessica, and everyone felt obligated to call me a woman, they would be wireheading me: making me think my transition was successful, even though it wasn't.

This is the same fuckin' diseased mentality that gets cis women harassed in changing rooms for having jawlines that are slightly too heavy.

The math is also weird and unclear in that way which feels like a person reaching for grandiose Theories Of It All without any experience solving more mundane problems first.

I suspect that this is less about using language with which one's audience is familiar to convey a message accurately, and more about making the message sound obviously right and affirming the smartness of the audience because Computer Words.

lakes and seas of people

clearly the AI is going to hug us all and then we turn into TANG

If you're not worried about the utter extinction of humanity, consider this scarier prospect: An AI reads the entirety of AO3, which no human can comprehend, and threatens to leave scathing comments on your self-insert fic

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Between the end of 2002 and beginning of 2003, Dawn distanced herself from Singer. (Complaint, ¶ 44.) In May 2003, Singer asked Dawn to work with him on a piece he had been asked to write for the Los Angeles Times, for which she would receive co-writing credit. (Id. at ¶ 45.) From 2002 through 2020, all of Singer's female co-authors were women with whom Singer had been sexually involved, or to whom he had made clear his sexual interest. (Id. at ¶¶ 46, 47.) Despite a pattern of professional reward for sexual affection, Singer wrote to Dawn that he believed he could only be accused of anything if an angry ex "made something up" or "had a false memory." (Id. at ¶ 49.) Dawn came to understand that she too would be rewarded for maintaining an affectionate relationship with Singer, with offers of prestigious work, and would lose those offers without such expressions of warmth. (Id. at ¶ 50.)

Dawn and Singer became sexually involved again when working on the Los Angeles Times op-ed together, with Dawn agreeing to be part of Singer's "harem" as long as "she was his favorite, the lead in his orchestra, as he called it." (Complaint, ¶ 52.) Dawn wondered if she should be trying to have a child with her partner and was reminded by Singer that if she did, it would negatively affect her figure and would interfere with their affair. (Id. at ¶ 53.) In 2003, Singer told Dawn that while he still wished to be sexually involved with her, she had been replaced as the main recipient of his affections by a woman he had met at a conference in Europe and who was 10 years younger than Dawn and who was married. (Id. at ¶¶ 54-56.) Singer acknowledged the "high risk" that the affair would destroy the woman's marriage. (Id. at ¶ 57.) Dawn wrote numerous emails to Singer making it clear that she was emotionally shattered by the turn of events. (Id. at ¶ 59.)

Feeling old compared to her younger replacement, Dawn had a facelift in 2004, at the age of 41. (Complaint, ¶ 70.) Her face became infected, and she was ill for weeks. (Id. at ¶ 71.) Dawn shared news of the long-term affair with her partner, now a partner of four years. (Id. at ¶ 74.) The relationship was strained beyond repair and plans for marriage between Dawn and her partner were put on hold. (Id. at ¶¶ 75, 76.) Before learning about the affair between

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