Tag: writing
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The Heart of the Revolution
The crux of the AI Revolution is what will be outsourced to our thinking machines. Perhaps our jobs. Perhaps our reading. Perhaps our thinking. Perhaps our hearts.
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A Labor-Saving Device
AI is performing intellectual labor in private life. Labor is labor, whether physical or mental, and AI is a labor-saving device.
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cover reveal!
I am excited to reveal the cover of Singularity, the second book of the Eternities series.
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title reveal!
I am pleased to reveal the title for my upcoming release.
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Redundant Redundancies
Today’s topic is redundant phrases. We have all had it drilled into us that redundancy is bad and clean, effective communication excises the pointless. We also have ingrained into us our civilization’s stock of well-worn and oft-used expressions, which did not undergo a strict vetting by licensed grammarians and therefore contains redundancies. Like Orwell’s animals,…
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Appendix of Names
During the earliest development of The Valley of Decision, I established this pattern of naming: of Gaelic origin, unusual enough that the names would not be common in our own world, but not too unusual. I avoided names like Ruairidh because it just looks too foreign. Who would care to guess how to pronounce it?…
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The Northmen
I am bringing down hobgoblins from the mountains, Men from the Coldlands. The Valley of Decision The Men of the Coldlands were barbarians. That is the first thing to understand. They wore animal skins, sang of their war gods, and knew nothing of letters or runes. They forged bronze rather than iron into weapons, and…