If you want to dive deep into the Drama Engine, here's the technical paper describing the whole system in great detail: arxiv.org/abs/2408.11574

As a front-end developer you can just install the Drama Engine directly via npm and get cracking at creating a party of characters. npmjs.com/package/@write…

Looks like Telegram is in fact the Bad Place™️

I blindly trust everything that joon - Phantom Spark 🏁 OUT NOW creates.

How to think about working with AI in the classroom by Ethan Mollick. Additionally to a list of current research on the effect of LLMs on students this article gives good advice on how to think about the topic as a teacher. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefult…

You know what's really good by the way? Pentiment! Josh Sawyer and his team created a game that feels made just for me and Char but you might enjoy it as well. Playing with Bavarian beer & with a religious scholar by the side adds a lot to the experience, of course.

I would never advocate for the mindless use of Generative AI but when people out there forbid a kind of art and insist on one correct way of making art I get defensive. So I've written a newsletter about creativity and AI and gatekeeping. spacedogchronicles.substack.com/p/it-is-forbid…

Ted Chiang's recent essay on AI was, alas, no good and Matteo Wong explains some of the reasons why. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

I was a bit angry earlier today but now I've had a little cycle and I'm calm again. It's fine.

Hiding alliterations deep down in a text is my secret passion.

He added the link (but kept the creative spelling of my name)

I've been reading a lot about revolutions recently and it seems to me like the earliest modern ones usually needed a couple of iterations before getting it right. Yet some of them stopped and now they're stuck in half-baked democracies.

“Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well and times shall be good. We are the times. Such as we are, such are the times.” - Saint Augustine of Hippo