Malcolm F. Cross
Lazy. Writes. Is known to write fiction. Is almost fictional. Sometimes furry.
Homepage: sinisbeautiful.com
Patreon: patreon.com/MalcolmFCross
Raw live draft for writing/creativity/motivation advice: #HacksawDraft
- This crazy-long thread is now converted to an essay on a single webpage. (About 2300 words, or 5-10~ minutes read) sinisbeautiful.com/compressing-...
- Something I've been trying the past couple of weeks (and maybe this makes this a #HacksawDraft thing) is repeatedly compressing and decompressing a novel outline. I just realized this is sort of like folding steel or kneading bread. Let me explain WTF I am on about in a thread on narrative. (🧵-->)
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- Ran into it while double-checking stuff I have flung onto bsky. And I was like. '... I was cookin'. Yeah. YEAH REPOST IT.'
- I am still so fucking behind on everything. OMG. ... But I feel like I'm catching up? ... Feelings count as productivity, right?
- I have been waiting for this simplified explainer for ages. Trying to explain this to people I keep getting muddled up because I A) Get angry B) studied this very incompletely almost 20 years ago. This. This is how simple 'neurons' are in AI. www.youtube.com/shorts/clqzN...
- Regardless of what gets developed in AI, regardless of quality, regardless of anything... It will always be the mass produced and least interesting thing. If it gets good? Great! But that won't stop it from being something nobody cared enough about to actually do for themselves. -->
- That's what happens when something becomes so intensely mass produced and automated that it turns into trash and clutter. People used to save glass bottles and jars. Now they're so worthless to us that it requires additional effort to get us to even bother recycling them. AI can't get around that.
- I just discovered that it's possible to use supercritical carbon dioxide instead of water in steam engines and get better energy efficiency in the heat-to-electricity conversion process. ... This makes so much sense and is so futuristic-cool to me, but, uh. ... It's a tech that's going commercial.
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View full threadI mean that's 20% more available energy?
- The sad thing is that I generally see efficiency gains like that and go 'okay so that means 20% less investment in infrastructure and even more corner cutting'... ... But it is. Theoretically. Maybe. On the near horizon. ;~;
- It does mean replacing every single steam turbine in the world - and there are turbines out there that have been running for up on a hundred years - but... ... I picture a world with 20% more energy over the past century and I weep.
- Or fucking 20% less climate change! ;~;
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- Like 10% is pushing efficiency from 40% to 50%, it's not literally altering the universe, but, like. ... It's fucking with a boundary I had taken for granted for most of my life.
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- Looks like it. There's some serious challenges around corrosion and shit like that, but... ... It looks like there's a 10% efficiency increase, if not more, ready to pluck. Now.
