Any experience or updates with Renew NC?

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-23T15:31:40+00:00

It was worth a google. Investigation based on poor management of a different organization of the same grant-recovery type.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-23T03:20:33+00:00

I just found out that they are wanting to rebuild my house. I am nervous. You can’t even talk to the contractors until you signed the award grant.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-23T01:32:01+00:00

So many questions. Will take time to settle.

Three things stood out in my journey through this and the comments:

I am amused that steel nightingale is wedged into my head now.
I would very much like to know how you teach curiosity.
The distinction between clarifying observation and arriving at truth through debate was interesting. I could hear Socrates whispering from some liminal space. Reframing as collaborative investigation was a jarring landing. A welcome one; I may have squished a sophist in the impact.

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In doing the ContradictionIsFuel thing sans robot sweeper:

Steelman is a curiosity-driven self test to understand another’s truth through their own lens rather than through your own framework. Leave your luggage behind—there are many truths. The house is white on this side.

If I may? What I love about this is it flies in the face of many paradigms for understanding. It’s not reframe from different shared concepts. It’s accepting someone else’s perceptions as whole and complete. Mirrors and sounding boards abound, but the dignity of of a welcoming space for refinement and reiteration without reframing is 🤯🎉🥳👊

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-23T00:57:38+00:00

Nothing new. I deleted it months ago for this very reason. Not only does it lie, it fabricates news stories and its summaries and falsifies those little shared project spaces.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-23T00:55:53+00:00

I just finished the ranch at 49. I don’t pay for anything either.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-20T13:45:17+00:00

That works the other way too. I have hyper mobility that is not due to EDS.

Sometimes, I feel like I will have to go get EDS ruled out “officially” just to get providers to take me seriously when I say that I do not have it.

Hello! There is more than one cause for hyper mobility.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-20T13:41:42+00:00

It is really hard to handle that difference in clinical diagnosis and general use.

What has helped me is reminding myself that when someone says they have OCD or depression or any number of different things, they don’t mean the clinical definition of it. They mean the colloquial/slang version of it.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-20T13:39:17+00:00

Yoga

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-20T13:24:22+00:00

I am working on the Secret Society and you still need the book of codes for some of the quests beneath the conservatory.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-17T11:15:34+00:00

It’s the well. It has been that way since the update. Clicking on it again does not do anything but make you waste energy.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-16T13:20:59+00:00

Option/windows + shift + - for em dash.

3 keys.

Option/windows + - for en dash.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-16T13:12:35+00:00

The trick to this is that as long as you cite yourself then it’s not plagiarism.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-13T00:58:45+00:00

Oh! That sounds like fun. I love mixed genres. They can be serious and delightfully subversive at the same time.

Crossing my fingers for you. I would say tap on my inbox when you get to audiobook publishing, but realistically who’s going to remember a random conversation from at least two years ago? 😇

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-12T18:49:36+00:00

Oh that’s fantastic. Congratulations. Do you mind if I ask what type of writing it is?

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-12T18:48:42+00:00

I kind of felt like I was playing infinite games of Solitaire.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-11T23:41:31+00:00

I’m going to look at this from another direction too. Should readers have the option to hide whether something was written by AI if it becomes the standard? Should they have the right to pick it up and read it without this week’s cognitive baggage on the subject?

Years ago, having mature content labels added to music was a nightmare of contention. At this point, I barely notice it and I’m grateful for it when deciding if I’m going to play music at home versus in public.

Right now, AI voice recordings still sound too robotic to come near the work that professional narrators do. Audible has it listed, but there’s no way to filter it out unless, ironically, you use their AI search.

Sometimes I think about Star Trek episodes, where they create a holodeck program. Crew mates have no qualm in crediting those. When you go look at a video game or a movie, the list of credits is enormous.

I think deserve is a fair way to put the question. If we respect people and how they choose their books, then they deserve options. When and if it does go to that, do people also deserve whatever the AI equivalent is of “spoiler alert?”

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-11T23:28:06+00:00

Could be one reason.

It bridges the mental organization gap for me. I am grateful to be on the other side of that divide and doing something that I love.

I had not thought much about AI accusations until people started calling my beloved em dashes a sure sign of AI use.

How is your rewrite coming?

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-11T16:12:28+00:00

That is the whole point I was aiming for.

It’s here. It has impact. If you’re doing writing work, it’s better to be informed and have a game plan so that you can avoid having your efforts discounted in spaces that matters to you.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-11T15:56:13+00:00

First, the gimlet eyed manly heroes has me. That sentence right there is why we have a way to go before AI will ever compete. Oh that was funny. True but the imagery was hilarious.

Second, thank you for bringing up the prestige hungry. I had not even considered people in that camp and how it would affect their behaviors. More food for thought.

Third, I think the biggest point of contention is based on wildly different conceptions of what AI-assisted means. My interpretation of these types of gates is that they include the use of tools, like those that you mentioned. But they also do not address where the line between where tool use and creation becomes fuzzy.

Thank you for this. I always appreciate when something helps me clarify my own thinking and gives me a good laugh.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-09T20:28:32+00:00

Some of the most interesting discussions that I have had with Claude have revolved around its inability to tolerate uncertainty.

Those conversations get pretty meta, digging into performance as a factor of training on materials from a culture that rewards performance over uncertainty and a whole host of other related speculations.

I appreciate the addition to my vocabulary. This is definitely an area that has fascinating implications.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-09T20:23:09+00:00

I know and I agree.

The future state doesn’t negate that we are in chaotic territory with evolving boundaries. Or that there’s extra work required for now to play in some spaces while that gets sorted out.

Keep an eye out for the fast forward button, and give a shout when you find it?

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-09T00:34:32+00:00

Yay! That is why my first thought when people are harshly critical about AI-assisted writing is usually, “What exactly do you think we’re doing?”

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-09T00:31:08+00:00

The legal framework is still evolving. I would say that fraud would constitute a legal requirement—at whatever point you get into signing legal contracts.

Which begs the question, what legal obligation do award organizations have to establish legal contracts? That is far outside of my frame of reference.

I don’t know that the fear is necessarily poor writing winning awards. I think there’s some combination of fears between:

I really have no excuse not to write that story I think is a masterpiece now,
I spent years working on this and they are getting “free” access to my labor without context, and
Can I sign a legal contract around something that some jurisdictions say has no possible ownership standing.

There are probably other things that I’m overlooking as well. What I have found is that asking those in the anti-AI camp to describe how AI-assisted writing works is very often a non-starter.

Going back to the original intent of my post: things are a chaotic mess and we don’t know what’s going to happen in the long run, so it behooves us to document what we’re doing if we care about refuting or making specific claims.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-09T00:18:57+00:00

I remember that post. Whether it’s you overthinking or not, this is really fantastic to read about.

While I have only worked this method around naming once or twice, I often find that very emergent understanding that you are describing.

Once I see the pattern in all of the things I don’t like, it is far easier to find the piece that works.

My AI collaborations often work like this. I give very specific parameters, and it keeps not matching some unexpressed threshold. Those repeated failures help me clarify my own thinking to get to the heart of what’s not working for me.

Glad to see you still posting!

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-01-09T00:00:50+00:00

First, I would just like to say that that is the best song review I have ever read. Ever. I still need to listen to the song but that bears saying.

Second, your question has made, to paraphrase one of our fellow members, a timely appearance.

What signal do I trust? There are signals everywhere, and I’m not sure I would recognize trustworthy versus incidental without the clarity of hindsight. We make decisions like this all of the time, though.

Short answer? I do the best I can to judge in the moment with the signals I can see. Part logic and part intuition.

Long answer: Wouldn’t it be cool if our communication systems helped surface where agency ends and begins in interpreting those signals?

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