• AI SF

    From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 14 16:44:59 2024
    One guy is hmm, curating?, AI SF stories on substack. Looks like
    he's acting as a movie producer: "Get me a script about..."

    Prompt: Write a 10,000 word1 short story about an asetroid
    miner marooned on an asteroid. Narrate in first person. The
    miner has a wry, ironic, and detached demeanor, but he
    really pines for his family back home. He has a number of
    robots to keep him company, including one which helps him
    with sexual needs, but as he becomes more aware of how
    inextricably marooned he is, he starts to think about
    descending through Dante's circles of hell. The overall
    message is one of increasing existential despair, akin to
    Sartres No Exit. Now, this is a science fiction story, but
    I want it to be a well-written, *literary* science fiction
    story--think something akin to Alastair Reynolds' style.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.
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  • From Don@21:1/5 to Ted Nolan on Sat Dec 14 18:12:01 2024
    Ted Nolan wrote:
    One guy is hmm, curating?, AI SF stories on substack. Looks like
    he's acting as a movie producer: "Get me a script about..."

    Prompt: Write a 10,000 word1 short story about an asetroid
    miner marooned on an asteroid. Narrate in first person. The
    miner has a wry, ironic, and detached demeanor, but he
    really pines for his family back home. He has a number of
    robots to keep him company, including one which helps him
    with sexual needs, but as he becomes more aware of how
    inextricably marooned he is, he starts to think about
    descending through Dante's circles of hell. The overall
    message is one of increasing existential despair, akin to
    Sartres No Exit. Now, this is a science fiction story, but
    I want it to be a well-written, *literary* science fiction
    story--think something akin to Alastair Reynolds' style.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.

    tl;dnr THE TENTH CIRCLE curator commentary.

    Nonetheless, it's sensible for someone such as Salacious B. Crumb to
    command Hell from the tenth circle. Because it betrays boastful "Better
    to reign in hell than serve in heaven" rhetoric.

    Danke,

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    tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to petertrei@gmail.com on Sat Dec 14 22:28:57 2024
    In article <vjkh7q$3k9p$2@dont-email.me>,
    Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 12/14/2024 11:44 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    One guy is hmm, curating?, AI SF stories on substack. Looks like
    he's acting as a movie producer: "Get me a script about..."

    Prompt: Write a 10,000 word1 short story about an asetroid
    miner marooned on an asteroid. Narrate in first person. The
    miner has a wry, ironic, and detached demeanor, but he
    really pines for his family back home. He has a number of
    robots to keep him company, including one which helps him
    with sexual needs, but as he becomes more aware of how
    inextricably marooned he is, he starts to think about
    descending through Dante's circles of hell. The overall
    message is one of increasing existential despair, akin to
    Sartres No Exit. Now, this is a science fiction story, but
    I want it to be a well-written, *literary* science fiction
    story--think something akin to Alastair Reynolds' style.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.

    re you sure this isn't a prompt for an AI? I'm seeing a *lot* of
    badly written AI stories on Youtube, read by an AI voice, and
    illustrated with AI images.

    pt


    ? I thought it was pretty clearly a prompt, given that it starts
    with "Prompt:".
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  • From Titus G@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 15 13:19:31 2024
    On 15/12/24 11:28, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <vjkh7q$3k9p$2@dont-email.me>,
    Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 12/14/2024 11:44 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    One guy is hmm, curating?, AI SF stories on substack. Looks like
    he's acting as a movie producer: "Get me a script about..."

    Prompt: Write a 10,000 word1 short story about an asetroid
    miner marooned on an asteroid. Narrate in first person. The
    miner has a wry, ironic, and detached demeanor, but he
    really pines for his family back home. He has a number of
    robots to keep him company, including one which helps him
    with sexual needs, but as he becomes more aware of how
    inextricably marooned he is, he starts to think about
    descending through Dante's circles of hell. The overall
    message is one of increasing existential despair, akin to
    Sartres No Exit. Now, this is a science fiction story, but
    I want it to be a well-written, *literary* science fiction
    story--think something akin to Alastair Reynolds' style.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.

    re you sure this isn't a prompt for an AI? I'm seeing a *lot* of
    badly written AI stories on Youtube, read by an AI voice, and
    illustrated with AI images.

    pt


    ? I thought it was pretty clearly a prompt, given that it starts
    with "Prompt:".

    I think pt means promotion. (Advertisement.)

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to noone@nowhere.com on Sun Dec 15 04:11:27 2024
    In article <vjl7aj$6qs5$4@dont-email.me>, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote: >On 15/12/24 11:28, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <vjkh7q$3k9p$2@dont-email.me>,
    Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 12/14/2024 11:44 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    One guy is hmm, curating?, AI SF stories on substack. Looks like
    he's acting as a movie producer: "Get me a script about..."

    Prompt: Write a 10,000 word1 short story about an asetroid
    miner marooned on an asteroid. Narrate in first person. The
    miner has a wry, ironic, and detached demeanor, but he
    really pines for his family back home. He has a number of
    robots to keep him company, including one which helps him
    with sexual needs, but as he becomes more aware of how
    inextricably marooned he is, he starts to think about
    descending through Dante's circles of hell. The overall
    message is one of increasing existential despair, akin to
    Sartres No Exit. Now, this is a science fiction story, but
    I want it to be a well-written, *literary* science fiction
    story--think something akin to Alastair Reynolds' style.

    https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it. I'm surfing at the bagel shop. Maybe later.

    re you sure this isn't a prompt for an AI? I'm seeing a *lot* of
    badly written AI stories on Youtube, read by an AI voice, and
    illustrated with AI images.

    pt


    ? I thought it was pretty clearly a prompt, given that it starts
    with "Prompt:".

    I think pt means promotion. (Advertisement.)

    Ah, OK. Don't think I've heard that usage. I still haven't gone back yet,
    but I didn't get that impression.
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    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Jay Morris@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Dec 21 11:30:59 2024
    On 12/17/2024 11:11 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 12/14/2024 10:44 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    One guy is hmm, curating?,  AI SF stories on substack.  Looks like
    he's acting as a movie producer: "Get me a script about..."

        Prompt: Write a 10,000 word1 short story about an asetroid
        miner marooned on an asteroid. Narrate in first person. The
        miner has a wry, ironic, and detached demeanor, but he
        really pines for his family back home. He has a number of
        robots to keep him company, including one which helps him
        with sexual needs, but as he becomes more aware of how
        inextricably marooned he is, he starts to think about
        descending through Dante's circles of hell. The overall
        message is one of increasing existential despair, akin to
        Sartres No Exit. Now, this is a science fiction story, but
        I want it to be a well-written, *literary* science fiction
        story--think something akin to Alastair Reynolds' style.

        https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle

    No, I haven't read it.  I'm surfing at the bagel shop.  Maybe later.

    Well, that was scary.

    Lynn


    Yes. And the name through me for a minute. Dave Friedman

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