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e internet goes down this had its similarities to isaac asimov s story about people unable to calculate by hand due to reliance on calculators and how shocking it was when someone re invented that financial bubble the financial bubble represented by the investment of billions and billions in ai is starting to show a few leaks since ai hasn t resulted in a real game changer investor confidence could be shaken not to speak of the huge potential environmental impact especially the ai need for fossil fuel or nuclear energy and impact on the use of water which are crucial issues everywhere in these times of climate change a recent study found that 95 of the attempts to use ai in business have failed to make money and the remaining 5 are mostly about its efficiency in creating vast volumes of spam for annoying marketing purposes but the real interest for me is what the ai bubble reveals about human nature or maybe it s just about the sad lack of connection for many people in our culture the meaning of eliza joseph weizenbaum in 1966 created a highly scripted chatbot called eliza which applied pattern matching rules to converse with people that some embraced it as their private psychotherapist was shocking to the computer scientist more than a few people seriously thought it was responding with empathy but in reality eliza merely reflected back what a person asked of it and eliza only had 200 lines of code what i had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people weizenbaum wrote now imagine those minimal lines of code expanded to include the entire internet as a pool to parrot from there s an article on ieee spectrum that describes the phenomenon of eliza why people demanded privacy to confide in the world s first chatbot it discusses this tendency to attribute empathic understanding to simulcra like eliza and of course chatgpt and the others weizenbaum found the article says that the simulation of intelligence rather than intelligence itself was enough to fool people after eliza weizenbaum s mission became to remind people that their machines were not as smart as they were often said to be and that even though it sometimes appeared as though they could talk they were never really listening a cautionary tale comments 2 comments the main puzzlement posted august 6 2025 by fencer categories art awareness movie review psychology science writing tags awareness culture human beings imagination learning mysterious universe society the movie alpha wolves the main puzzlement of my life so far i m only 74 is what are human beings this came to me after watching the movie alpha about the first rapprochement between wolf and humankind the movie s title by the end resonates beyond dominance about this first connection between species it shows to us dull humans an unrecognized commonality in the only way it could get through by way of an animal capable of empathy emotions and understandings particular to their kind are part of the rest of the animal kingdom too in all their forms maybe the descendants of the wolves have had a hand in domesticating us as much as they are able but beyond that the movie was so skillful in showing the grandeur and the indifference of the universe in the prehistoric times of the movie back with the mastodons and the ice ages humans live primitively surviving by their wits in a vast and mostly unknown landscape so few they dwell in the ultimate mystery of existence and their humanness is shown by their efforts to make it meaningful they make cairns in rocky tundra to mark paths for hunting and places for meeting neighbouring tribes they consecrate the passing of anyone in their group with ritual and loving remembrance they tattoo themselves with a kind of map of their surroundings so as not to get lost the bond of the family holds them together it s the only thing there is imagine take a moment to imagine there are none of the amenities and conveniences we take so for granted there s absolutely nothing of anything man made except rough clothing the skins over huts and sharp edged stones from flintknapping and fire they guard themselves through the unmitigated darkness of the night and the occasional howl or cry of other animals the glare of the day is eased by shadowy forests just pure wilderness everywhere no cities or towns or even villages if you don t count a dozen huts of natural materials clustered together only starry starry nights while the humans make stories about the shapes they see constellated in the dazzling stars above that drive to make sense to make the indifferent stuff of the beautiful and terrifying world part of a human order is what science is when you get right down to it to know what all this is although we may never really know whenever i come across the depictions of utter cruelty and cravenness of some humans through tv or printed page online and off i try to square that with all the decent people i know and don t know it seems we contain multitudes to borrow from walt whitman so human beings are another mystery out here under the infinite interstellar vault of the heavens there s an older movie called cell not well received in its time 2016 as indicated by a rotten tomato score of 11 the new york times said of its screenplay wholly unable to deliver even a smidgen of nuance or depth it s a sort of zombie film a memorable line yet it had one memorable line that stood out for me with its imaginative reverberations humans are the religion of the angels that s evocative although it may not make a lot of sense at first impact but it acknowledges this mystery of the human in a pleasing way to me even the angels struggle to define us and are left with the numinous mystery of our potential and its faltering i come back to the bond between dogs and humans and how that started at the very beginning it tells us something of the nature of both species for me it s a positive thought to dwell on the movie set me to thinking home comments be the first to comment a process for novel revision posted june 21 2025 by fencer categories fiction novel publishing science fiction writing tags books creativity fiction learning novel novel revision novel writing science fiction writing writing tips consider for a moment what you re doing when you fine tune your prose you re really removing the sense of a writer from the work so that the only thing of which a reader is aware is the imaginative world of the story david kaplan in revision a creative approach i ve finished my third novel in a science fiction trilogy of stories widely separated in time and characters the only continuity between the stories is that of history and legend i m working on revising it it can be difficult although i agree revision is the soul of writing as kaplan says in his book i have difficulty to figure out what to cut though i tend to over write the first draft was a good 5000 words longer than it is now that is almost a minor amount compared to what i had to do with the first two novels revising before writing but i m happy that i spent a lot of time on what kaplan calls revising before writing if as i have suggested revising is discovering what we really want to say not just how to say it then we can revise our stories by mulling and pondering them before we even sit down to do the first draft to develop a slate of characters especially the main one who needs to yearn for something meaningful to figure out how to thwart that yearning in dramatic ways to trace a rough sequence of culminating story events to imagine settings that will enliven those events and to find an ending that resonates there is a wide net to cast you have to be alert to your internal cues about what might work and be open to the serendipity of outside influences there may be significant research necessary as in my case learning more about space elevators and synthetic biology i m not talking about comprehensive outlining or meticulously trying to put in the right beats that some craft authority dictates those tend for me anyway to deaden the imaginative exploration of the actual writing i ve written about this before in for example recently found tools for writing novels and a tale of two books on writing novels although front end planning helps a great deal with back end revising you have to be careful about planning to a fare thee well as a way to procrastinate especially worldbuilding i ve been guilty of this what works for me i m going to lay out what work s for me after three novels every writer s process is different and i should note i haven t published anything yet but still i think there may be value in this for others finding their way so the first draft is finally done congratulations time to take a break let the project marinate in its own juices for awhile i ve paused for several months down to this time barely two weeks it probably should have been longer the main consideration is to have enough time for what you ve written to go a little foggy enough so that when you pick it up again there is a hint of freshness and one hopes objectivity in your first read through read the whole thing as if for the first time take notes on everything problematic you find and where it is but don t change anything yet except obvious typos there will likely be continuity errors subplots that don t work characters who are unnecessary superfluous dream sequences backstory that goes on and on and a myriad of other faults and considerations that come to light set up a spreadsheet or other way to keep track list the novel s scenes from beginning to end for me i don t think that much about scenes when i write the first draft i ve got characters in conflict with much at stake and a direction to go to keep it interesting for myself i bang them against each other frequently and voila scenes spreadsheet of scenes the spreadsheet list of scenes at revision becomes a really important reference for the columns i use the following others may have better or additional categories scene number scene descriptor page nos chapter number setting named characters in scene whose point of view pov goal intent for pov character motivation about goal conflict tension difficulty problem the scene ends with character s fear factor structural and notes structural is mainly about whether a scene is truly necessary sometimes this becomes apparent right away and sometimes only after you work more with the revision or maybe a scene needs to be moved to a different place in time or geography the spreadsheet takes some time to fill out with what is now maybe just your second read through then comes the painful task of excising scenes and possibly characters that don t actively contribute to the story occasionally i have to fill in some bits to clarify or make the story and characters more interesting the helpful synopsis an important part of revision which may be overlooked is the usefulness of a two or three page synopsis a summary of all the events and important characters as they progress through the story this can make apparent distressing gaps especially about causality and as sandra scofield puts it in her book the last draft a big part of revision is deepening the story you can start by deepening the summary the discipline of condensing this world you ve created into such a short form is extremely helpful it s also often necessary to do when approaching literary agents with queries so you might as well get an early start on it after that i refer to my copious notes from that first read through and fix then i put the novel chapters into an inexpensive program called hemingway editor to review readability and highlight all the many adverbs adjectives and uses of passive voice often these clutter the clean lines of a sentence it takes time to evaluate the necessity of each word the most useful aspect of the program is how it brings over long and awkward sentences to my attention i like the occasional flowing long sentence it comes natural to me but i tend to overdo it i toyed with having an ai voice read the novel to me but i gave up on that when i realized how stilted and artificial the available voices are all rhythm in the sentence is lost with the last novel i read the work out loud to myself but i found that time consuming exercise didn t help me as much as i anticipated unnecessary words so then with advice from craft books using the find function i examined and often deleted every instance of such words and phrases as really rather quite suddenly starting to looked at and many more two helpful books on this including more general revision advice are novel revision prompts by rayne hall and the novel editing workbook by kris spisak then comes serious line editing this time i ve worked in two directions the first way is start at the end and work backwards sentence by sentence this does allow better focus i found on each sentence rhythm flow and fitting word choice then at roughly the same time i start at the beginning and examine each sentence from there this allows more sense of the story to inform the sentence further adjustments may be necessary that s pretty well the end of my process although no doubt i ll go back from time to time and see what i m not satisfied with as you may appreciate this all takes patience and a considerable amount of time i aspire to what kaplan describes above to allow the reader to sink into the story without hindrance to enter for awhile the dream you ve built and know that it was good home comments be the first to comment a new mode of enjoying music posted february 16 2025 by fencer categories art culture music remembering seventies sixties tags classic rock crosby crosby stills nash jefferson airplane music reaction videos procol harum the chambers brothers three dog night in my occasional wanderings on youtube which i go to mostly for music of interest i ve encountered a new way of enjoying music at least for me and it s not new in other contexts of course when friends of like mind and tastes get together to play music that means something to them although this in person activity probably doesn t happen that much anymore sadly i m not sure of the most concise way to describe these youtube offerings but they re about enjoying watching the video presenter enjoy music that i also like most often these are tunes in the classic rock realm the presenter may be a classically trained musician or just someone born too late to experience the music back in the day they often claim they are listening to the particular rock music for the first time as a person who grew up with all that music it can be hard to believe that the music i love from that time is not ubiquitous or that it may not even be remembered at all the most recent videos of this kind that i ve enjoyed are those from amy shafer a harpist and classical pianist who calls herself virgin rock sh...