Autoclanking

First off, this was a shitpost that only one person managed to figure out. LLMs are garbage and the whole premise here is fairly ridiculous.

I agree that he owes us nothing. But I’m sure he owes the money people at Bantam or Random House something. Like actually, contractually, owes them. They will complete it posthumously if needed, using his draft material. It’s incumbent on him to finish it while he still has creative control.

Finally lol

Funny, that’s very interesting.

And hey, it looks like AI might wind up a pretty savvy tool for writers wanting to keep track of their own complex plot maps and character webs, too.

See that’s exactly the kind of housekeeping help that might actually boost GRRM’s personal productivity without compromising his vision. I’ve never had to wrangle thousands of pages of my own narrative but I can imagine it’s inherently really slow.

GRRM deserves every insult for being unfocused and putting other work ahead of his task. Sanderson may be the one to finish extending his piles of chapter drafts instead of Claude, but someone is definitely going to pick it up after GRRM posthumously cedes creative control because he can’t be assed to finish it himself.

That ending was dreamed up by Weiss and Benioff who were desperate to crap out something, anything, so that they could go make Star Wars movies instead. It’s not the real ending by the real author, and the TV series had already diverged from the books by that point.

Vyvanse or Adderall

He has claimed to have already written lots of the subsequent material, he just doesn’t like how it’s organized. Having an LLM refine that unpublished material very different than asking it to project all of the storylines itself.

Given the mountain of unpublished work, if he has a heart attack tomorrow, someone else is going to refine it and publish it posthumously. There’s too much money at stake for that not to happen.

Actually I think the problem is that he cares way too much. He has written himself too many sprawling storylines that all need to come back together in a satisfying convergence, which is very difficult. The further he gets in the story, the harder it becomes to continue. He’s also a perfectionist.

He’s a bit of a jerk for chronic underestimation of what it will take him to finish anything, and possibly for taking on other projects that further delay work on his magnum opus. But I understand procrastinating one important task by throwing yourself into work on different tasks.

I know but there are two more left and the penultimate one just might make it.

It depends somewhat on how you’re planning to watch it all. If you’re sailing the high seas or watching blurays you already bought years ago, just go until it starts to feel dumb again. But if you are going to pay real money or spend streaming subscription time, don’t watch any of it. Weiss and Benioff did such a bad job in handling the end that the entire series should be considered financially toxic. Not a penny, not a groat.

A better plan would be to listen to the audiobooks and hope that some residuals will help GRRM focus his ADHD long enough to finish another book while he’s still alive.

There are almost certainly several such instances, gobbling up content and feeding it to LLM training, ignoring all deletes.

You might enjoy The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s fiction, and written a few years ago, but it begins with heatwaves and crumbling infrastructure in India and you will probably get something out of it.

“Clearly these [US] demands are not about bringing us democracy but about plundering our resources and increasing worker exploitation,” he said.

Of course. Trump doesn’t even give even half a shit about the plight of approximately 99% of US citizens at home. He’s damned sure not interested in “bringing democracy” to Venezuela, beyond the vaguest headline fig leaf while enabling oligarchic plunder.

@[email protected] gets up to all kinds of hijinks.

[Trump] added: “I’m going to say I have to speak to the person that right now is, you know, you know who he is, that’s running Taiwan.”

How is he so completely unprepared?

Not to discount the usefulness or complexity of curl in any way, but it’s not one of the larger codebases out there. It’s also pretty darned good. Firefox seems to have a very positive experience with Mythos, but they also had their own internal test harnesses from prior work, ready to utilize LLM analysis at scale. It was far more intensive than having a third party run something on their behalf and produce a report.

The US is one of only two countries in the world to tax the foreign earnings of its expats (the other is Eritrea). They’re so annoying about it on the finance side that many foreign banks refuse to give accounts to US expats. Renunciation is the only way to avoid that mess.

The US also takes a big exit tax on the wealth of anyone renouncing.

“The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran [is] they can’t have a nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters at the White House before boarding a plane to China. “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.”

Hmm, funny thing that goal. Why did the previous nonproliferation agreement fall apart again? Oh, right, that was Trump:

“I don’t know what would have happened if he hadn’t withdrawn the U.S. from the deal,” Lisa Koch, an expert on American foreign policy and nuclear weapons and a Claremont McKenna College associate professor of government, told PolitiFact. “But I can say that if the United States had stayed in the (Iran agreement), and if everything had continued to go as it had been going between January 2016 and the U.S. withdrawal, Iran would still have an internationally monitored nuclear program and would not possess uranium enriched to the level at which Iran could decide to build nuclear bombs on a short timeline.”

Sorry, it was published over 40 years ago so the Spoilers Statute of Limitations has lapsed. It’s a good book though, put it back on your list.