Ephemeral Vagrant

—And you can’t blame a season 3 for not being as good as a season 2. But you can blame a season 4 for being worse than a season 3. A season 4 is where you go from saying “I love the acting and world building” to “This is a euphoric tapestry of character development and worldbuilding. I wish someday to harness a small fraction of this author’s awesome prowess. That intoxicating rush of— of subplot...

☙ Yeah, sometimes I get asked, “Are you pushing yourself too hard? Are your expectations of yourself realistic?” And it feels… impossible. ⦾ YES and how are we even expected to figure this out? That’s like asking if two ships in a storm are approaching each other or not. Who cares? There’s a storm and it’s getting dark. And someone needs to do something before everyone gets shipwrecked. ☙ —Vanny?...

> I really don't think the Ministry should have instituted Reticular Law at the end of the book. > Why not? > Well, it just felt like their decision was too hasty. How could they come to that conclusion when they knew so little? > Interesting, well, we know from the beginning of the book that the Ministry has a strained relationship with its subjects, and in the first chapter, they promised they w...

In which I connect my previous episode about a semantic knowledge graph internet with my previous article here: https://vente.medium.com/463abc7492af This is the “missing middle” in applied AI systems, search engines on one end, ChatGPT on the other. What would something in between look like? I confess I’ve been thinking about this to maybe an unhealthy degree… maybe talking about this out loud wi...

Did I just fall prey to assuming that generalism and specialism actually exist? In math, we have to prove that something exists before we undertake a quest in search of it. Maybe we’re all far more generalist than we think… I wrote this article ages ago but I still think about it. https://vente.medium.com/21c00e3bea4c That firetruck you saw on your way home at night Words are far too weak for thei...

The narrative implications of this user-generated web of ideas could also be interesting for authors. What if two characters meet each other by subscribing to each other’s nodes and learning more and more about each other with time? And then they meet in real life and discover “Oh you’re not at all like I imagined”. It’s a tragedy really, because if they hadn’t spent so long before meeting, they w...

Served best with lo-fi in the background Contains a story about a girl whose pursuit of perfection in all knowledge requires her to take actions that force us to contend with questions of identity. If you reprogram yourself to achieve perfection, have you deleted a version of yourself, or were you that person all along? Athena is 17 and she’s on her phone sometimes. “You know when a page is crawli...