The Borderlands of Human/AI Interaction
A long time ago, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote me asking me if my stories on AI morality were my original idea, and if so, where did I come by them? I’m very sad to admit that, at the time, I had no idea who he was and so I let the letter go unanswered for [...]
I have to admit that I’m finding this a little discomfitting…
At first, I thought a setting of military chaos and horror would be a great place for a meditation on the urge for humanness in the midst of it all. Let’s face it: I write porn, and two people trying to make sense of it and live while so much dying is going on around [...]
When a writer has it bad…
You know you’ve got it bad when, while writing an alternative history, you find yourself hacking a python script to query the database at census.gov and calculate what the world population of your “otherness” species ought to be. Right now it tells me:
World Bastet Population (EST): 1,120,421
Y’know what, though? This collection is developing a [...]
If X is Y, then…
If literature is like music, and erotica is literature’s rock and roll, then my writing is prog-rock: over the course of a long but impecunious career I’ve written many excessively long pieces with limited and complex payoffs enjoyed by a small but rabid handful of fans, some of whom really don’t grasp what I’m trying [...]
Time and space to think
I have decided that taking a walk without anything to distract me is a bad idea. This afternoon I took a constitutional to a grocery store about a mile from the office. I had to get my refill of protein bars and such for my weekly workouts, and there are only two stores that [...]
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