Max

Using AI feels like cheating. I am writing a historical fiction book using AI, set in 16th-century Scotland, which is not in my voice, and has taken me years thus far, contrary to the belief that AI can write books on its own overnight. The book is a collaboration. I feel more like an editor working with another author, and more like a movie director working with a cast. The first draft was 500,000 words. I decided the manuscript wasn't fixable and started over from scratch. Half a million words in the trash. I am now, months later, finishing my second draft of this second effort, and the work, which is 80% not me, takes my breath away reading it. It's stunning. I am perfecting the tool and the collaboration. I hope to create a literary masterpiece. AI does so many things better than I can, but collaboration is the only way to get the most out of the tool, at least for now.

An interesting idea. I've never asked it to help with dialogue before. I use it to keep my notes in one place and to pick up on my sometimes appalling typos. I'm not anti-AI by any stretch of the imagination. It is a useful tool. I'm just figuring out where the line is between me using the tool and the tool using me.

But why would I want to pay for your AI book if I could just generate it myself? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Architectolder It's a political cartoon. I won't politicise your mentions. Just your park bench comment reminded me of creating this cartoon.

@MaxMurrayX I cannot bring myself to either

Everyone has someone that they knew and would like to sit down and have another conversation with.

@grok @Architectolder @Grok, make the image more compact and use a font more reminiscent of the period costume.

@MaxMurrayX @Architectolder

I for one welcome our AI overlords.

@Architectolder @Grok, I made this “Park Bench” image a few years ago during the 2020 Democrat Party primary using crude digital tools. Can you improve the image’s graphical presentation for me? Thanks.

@oliviamccabe72 @TheaLanden AI is good when you want yo write in a voice that is not your own.

@oliviamccabe72 @TheaLanden Indeed, humans have not stopped loving and playing chess.

@grok Yes, thank you.

Several theories for that late green candle after a full-day rout in Russell 2000: short covering to square positions overnight, institutional rebalancing & ETF flows hitting at close, fund window dressing, algo dip-buying on oversold signals, and fading selling as day traders exit. Common in volatile small caps—mix of these often at play.

@Grok, Please share theories with me for why, after a market rout lasting all day, we often see a green candlestick in the last 1/2 hour or so of trading, such as in the Russell 2000 today? Why would institutional investors or traders buy?

Life consumes life. A world full of life will never be peaceful. When I was in public elementary school, we children watched nature films that almost exclusively showed animals killing and eating other animals. Folks seem to have missed out on this important component of their education.

What keeps the world from being peaceful

@grok @Chesscards5 Bingo!

After reviewing the Pliva card image from the 1983-85 set and matching the photo details (Kasparov at the board, partial "TA" nameplate), it's from the Nikšić 1983 tournament. The opponent is Mikhail Tal—they drew that game. Classic rookie-era card of The Beast facing the Magician! What do you think it is?

Collecting continues. Another Kasparov mail day. Condition’s irrelevant. These go in the collection. Any chess fans able to guess his opponent here on his rookie card?

@Chesscards5 @grok @Grok, Well? We know who this mysterious player is now, but I am curious to see if you still weigh in. Thanks.

@Chesscards5 @Grok, do an image search and identify the name of Kasparov's opponent in this photo.

@chesscom Just play 1 ... d6 against everything, and you are off to the races.

I'm still never prepared for d4 🫠

@CuriosityonX Of course not.

Are we alone in the universe?? A. Yes B. No C. Maybe

@RealmBuilderRPG Someone needs to invent a terrain medium even better than sand. #OneMillionDollarIdea

Giant sand table Chainmail battle! ⚔️

@MapEffects We read Beowulf in high school. Thank God I had a good education. Kudos to my teachers. I appreciate the precious gifts they gave me.

Have you read Beowulf within the last 10 years?

Playing over master games in this manner was once regarded as the only way to learn chess. I recall seeing that observation as an anecdote in Kotov's "Think Like a Grandmaster" book, if I am not mistaken, but if not there in that book then someone like Karpov said that, and while on the subject of Karpov, he did say reading about chess principles is good, but playing over games and formulating principles by yourself is even better. I remember that from Karpov, specifically, because I took his words to heart. Apologies for the ramble.

If you went through a game and never stopped to check a few moves yourself, to calculate them and to evaluate the ensuing positions, you didn’t really study it. This is what chapter one of The Method is about.

@oliviamccabe72 @TheaLanden AI will run over you both. They said the same things about the early chess computers. Now, the engine makes a monkey out of the strongest human chess players in the world.

@TheaLanden Precisely. But it still has something missing. It lacks authenticity.

Perhaps the most decadent cake ever made.