#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 5: How do you make sure you don't leave plot holes?
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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 5: How do you make sure you don't leave plot holes?
Apply Torvald's Law (of software development): with enough eyes, all bugs are transparent.
But really, you can never be certain there are no plot holes: I just try to revise everything enough that the obvious ones get eliminated before the book goes to my agent. (Even so, plot holes emerging from subtle implications of world-building mistakes remain murderously hard to see.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 5: How do you make sure you don't leave plot holes?
Apply Torvald's Law (of software development): with enough eyes, all bugs are transparent.
But really, you can never be certain there are no plot holes: I just try to revise everything enough that the obvious ones get eliminated before the book goes to my agent. (Even so, plot holes emerging from subtle implications of world-building mistakes remain murderously hard to see.)
@cstross I thought it was noted fascist Eric Raymond who coined that. And yet, 20+ year old bugs in Linux and Unix keep surfacing every year, and that's because the open source process is transparent, unlike with proprietary software.
LLMs, on the other hand, are scarily good at what is essentially a pattern-recognition problem, and they don't get tired or bored. The only wrinkle is Anthropic discovered training a LLM to discover vulnerabilities turns it fascist.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 5: How do you make sure you don't leave plot holes?
Apply Torvald's Law (of software development): with enough eyes, all bugs are transparent.
But really, you can never be certain there are no plot holes: I just try to revise everything enough that the obvious ones get eliminated before the book goes to my agent. (Even so, plot holes emerging from subtle implications of world-building mistakes remain murderously hard to see.)
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@aeva I'm betting on hunkering down and letting the ai-bros Malthus themselves into oblivion
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*puts on Bright Eyes to take the edge off a bad mood* [a child outside starts crying] aaah. much better.
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Do not go gentle into that good night... (bring considerably bigger ship)
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@pupxel I don't think that will have the desired effect.
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@aeva start a company that sells AI generated code but it's just you in a basement
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@aeva fair, I only have that one idea and would take more
nitric acid dissolves copper, which is what the cooling pipes must be made of
