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@NanoRaptor My tenement flat. It was built some time in the 1820s, so it's been up and running and inhabited for a couple of centuries now. (Per Le Corbusier, "a house is a machine for living in".)

I have some books that are a bit older, though.

Writers’ Coffee Club for 25th September 2025

25. How many works do you have in progress at a time?

I don't multi-task, so I normally only have one WIP at a time. There may be others on the shelf, waiting for an idle spot.

Right now is very unusual: I've got TWO WIPs, both novels. But they share a common setting and one of them rudely elbowed the other out of the way and said "write ME now!" so I was able to switch tracks without a bad derailment.

@oblomov Fuck knows. Have you read "Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne?

#WritersCoffeeClub September 24: "How do you handle asides? Parenthesis, em-dashes, commas?"

Depends on the phase of the moon. Seriously. I need more than one delimeter pair because sometimes my asides throw recursively embedded asides of their own.

This is only possible because there's effectively no tax on revenue (or investments). If they had to pay even 1% of their net income in tax, this kind of scam would vanish like the morning dew.
https://fedi.libresolutions.network/objects/01997943-b8ab-ad00-2843-f9e533608c15

@LordCaramac @interstar @f4grx @michaelgemar @weekend_editor However most of what they call "AI" today is just deep learning stuff, so it'll be rebranded and continue under a new name.

@f4grx @interstar @michaelgemar @LordCaramac @weekend_editor The brain is not the sole component of the neurohormonal axis in the mammalian body. Nor are neurons the only relevant tissues in the brain, or action potentials the only mediator of non-local connections.

The most hilarious and horrible side-effect of LLMs is that we now have a definitive answer to the question implied by Searle's Chinese Room thought-experiment.

Anthropic and OpenAI have built the Chinese Room. And while it's clear now that there's no ghost in the machine, lots of people think they're having a real conversation ... https://mstdn.ca/@michaelgemar/115243456306059266

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

Reminder that the dinosaurs had no meteor monitoring and defense agency, 66,050,000 years ago.

And if they had, it wouldn't have done a blind bit of good; the Chixculub impactor was a 10km diameter rock—bigger than Mount Everest—coming in at 20km/sec—well above escape velocity (12km/sec).

You're not going to deflect THAT with a well-placed nuke unless you spot it decades ahead of showtime ... it'd be like trying to deflect a supertanker with a rubber band gun.

@Azuaron @david_chisnall @Jennifer @ewen The AI bubble is causing AI companies to commission huge data centers, which in turn raise commercial real estate prices all round (we're talking fractional-million square metre warehouse scale buildings here, not simple office blocks).

Friends don't let friends mindlessly accept advice from "AI": supporting evidence:

Remember, with the right it's ALWAYS projection. (They denounce in others what they themselves have done or want to do: they can't comprehend how anyone could "think different".)

Complaints about "cancel culture" always indicated a desire for far-right censorship. https://www.threads.com/@barackobama/post/DOvxeLxDajY

#WritersCoffeeClub 18: Have you written something blasphemous? Tell us about it.

I'm an atheist who had a non-mainstream religious upbringing and I blaspheme gleefully and at length at every opportunity against any religion that privileges dogma over humanity.

"A writer should care about nothing other than improving their art."

Hard nope.

A writer should care about their readers. (Unless you're writing only for yourself, and most folks who do that aren't worth reading, although there are honourable exceptions—Franz Kafka, for example.)

#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?

Yes.

I am published by Tor and Orbit currently (and have been published by other major Big Five imprints in the past).

EVERY SINGLE ONE of my book contracts contains a warranty clause to the effect that it is entirely my own original work, except for cited and referenced quotations (agreed by the publisher).

Use of an LLM would put me in breach of contract and liable for damages.