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- It looks like Ethereum is somehow a part of this universe along with AI? I am not sure what the identity is here fully, but I get that writers are wanted. Are they supposed to also be crypto broish?by thataccount
- Venkat's an advisor to Ethereum in some capacity. The Protocolized Reader has a couple essays that are blockchain-adjacent, but from the more utopian angle of using them to build a better world rather than just a vehicle for currency speculation and graft.by Arubis
- I was hoping for a post about learning to use the Jam build system that Boost uses, but the "extended fiction"part was interesting. I don't think I still understand what this is.by Nail2680
- Half the fun of writing science fiction can be coming up with novel concepts or 'rules', what happens when everything of consequence in the 'Jamverse' has been built out? Will they start a new one?by empressplay
- I agree that there's a tension you're pointing to here. But I can imagine narrative devices to get around it, if it's ever a problem.
Maybe go one level deeper? Or maybe branching the timeline in the past, like Marvel popularized?
by patcon - Shared fiction communities happen naturally when you have simple rules and a strong appealing grounding (visually, intellectually, ritually, or otherwise).
See: Minecraft, Sonic, MLP, SCP, even Bored Apes Yacht Club for 15 minutes
Which is me agreeing with you: this seems too hard to get; there's already 4 timelines and no faces to get attached to.
So why wouldn't I just write my own stories unrelated to this?
by avaer - > Jamverse (named for Fred Pohl’s dictum that the science-fiction writer’s job is to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam)
clarke once said he was proud of one of his books not only having predicted the portable personal music player, but that people would use them to be public nuisances.
by zem - Off topic but it’s getting crazy how confidently you can point at a websites design and go “An LLM designed this.”
Jamverse kind of just reminds me of a less guided SCP wiki? I’m not sure I fully get it though. Seems interesting though, I’ll have to poke through and read.
by cautiouscat - Isn't this just Substack? I don't think they allow too much styling - body and section fonts, header size, header image and icons, etc. Could be wrong.
EDIT: Oh the Jamverse website. Yes, agree 100% - apologies for missing at first.
by colinhb - I think what we sense as “LLM design” now is what used to be “oh, they used a popular squarespace template or Wordpress theme”. Makes sense that as the models were training on UI, they would heavily favor recurring patterns such as re-used design templates and popular UI libraries over the bespoke stuff.
That plus the AI generated imagery being used in hero images on a lot of sites is built from lazy prompts and riddled with tells like weird shape choices, smooth glossy surfaces, or mangled text.
by pixelready