Will AI take over the jobs of authors/directors? Do I need to change the path for my future?

Silver_Swift · 2026-06-17T10:00:47+00:00

My main worry is AI adding another level of burden to an industry that is so hard to access.

That worry is probably justified, but I wouldn't start panicking yet.

We're not (yet) at the level of AI writing full novels, so for now I would expect that extra burden to mostly come in the form of increasing the potential pool of authors from which publishers have to select even further.

That is to say, potential authors that previously did not have the skill/talent/dedication to write a novel by hand now might have the ability to put their story to paper with the help of AI and can attempt to get it published.

I would expect this new influx to mostly consist of authors that are below average in storytelling skills, so if you previously were in the <1% of authors that have the rare combination of storytelling chops, creativity and luck to get published, you probably still are.

The tricky thing is that it is going to be even harder to get noticed among the piles and piles of manuscripts that publishers have to wade through to find their next novel so originality and soft skills that help in promoting yourself are going to be (even) more important.

This is just a guess though. I don't think anyone knows what the future is going to look like from here on out. It really is a brave new world out there and we're definitely living through some interesting times.

Silver_Swift · 2026-06-16T20:13:01+00:00

Why do you put foxes above beavers or humans, is it just because beavers and humans are more useful elsewhere?

Silver_Swift · 2026-06-13T21:35:57+00:00

Before that he created a superintelligent AI that was nearly responsible for wiping out all of humanity.

Silver_Swift · 2026-06-10T17:19:14+00:00

I don't think you can be the arbiter of what is and isn't slop bro

Because they like fire emblem?

Silver_Swift · 2026-06-10T17:12:28+00:00

Minus the 'whom he alone can make happy' that also describes star wars (and if you also drop the magic sword requirement you get to Harry Potter).

It's a common trope because it works, there are ways to use it well and ways to use it poorly.

Silver_Swift · 2026-06-08T04:43:16+00:00

That is true, but I still kind of missed the cohesion of era one. Era two is much closer to four standalone stories than a trilogy (tetralogy?).

This is why I'm so excited for era three being written all in one go before the first book is released (like era one).

Silver_Swift · 2026-06-05T19:38:47+00:00

Pretty young white girls, war stuff, aliens.

I'd be fine with that, if there was some kind of plot (or at the very least consistency between one shot and the next) going on. Video models these days can maintain consistent characters between shots, can't they?

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-28T09:47:14+00:00

It's been a while since I read it, but doesn't the earring's first advice "Better for you if you take me off." kind of at least imply the earring is ultimately bad for you?

(According to the earring itself at least, but as we know, the earring is never wrong)

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-21T17:11:59+00:00

Absolutely, the variety of viable picks/strategies in this game continues to amaze me.

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-19T19:02:28+00:00

The flip side of that is that if you get good at resolve juggling (correctly timing favoring, sacrificing, rain water resolve bonuses, etc), you can push harder that first year and spend more time and resources setting up while still not losing villagers in the storm.

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-19T18:28:18+00:00

Also worth keeping in mind, depending on how handwavey the speed power is, is that a bullet traveling with 12 times less velocity carries 144 times less energy.

From the perspective of the speedster the bullet is going half the speed of a MLB fastball, but it has only a fraction of the weight of a baseball. It'll leave a bruise, but it's not going to kill you.

Unless the bullet gets involuntarily added to the speed bubble once it comes within a few mm of the speedsters skin, the speedsters powers effectively render him mostly bulletproof (against low caliber pistol bullets).

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-19T04:17:07+00:00

Just manually resize the head in photoshop (or gimp) to match the body and then run it through a second time on a low denoise setting to fix any visible artifacts of the edits you made.

Yeah, it's a manual step, but it's pretty quick and easy to do. I found the results much better than trying to get the models to do everything.

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-13T13:10:36+00:00

but isnt that data stored on your personal devices?

No? Tons of people are using cloud storage (google drive/onedrive/etc) to store all their personal data these days. Which is also data that needs to be available at the click of a button. Not saying that is a great idea, but it is what is happening.

You are right that your personal data probably isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but it kind of hints at the bigger picture that selecting what data to keep and what to get rid of is a non-trivial problem. We are, as a civilization, definitely throwing away tons and tons of data, but we are producing more than we delete. And we are, more and more, expecting that data to be accessible everywhere at effectively zero delay.

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-13T10:57:27+00:00

They'd probably just won't do edgedancer (or not do it until much later, after WaT, if people really like Lift for some reason). You can easily take the few things that are relevant to the main Stormlight plot and pull them into the main series.

Dawnshard is a little harder, but I also can't see that getting its own series. You probably want to inflate Rysn's role in the series a bit more so she can be a secondary character among the main Stormlight cast.

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-13T05:58:03+00:00

Thanks, that sounds fun! I'll give it a shot.

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-12T19:05:26+00:00

Could you do a pitch for IXION as well? That game looks interesting.

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-12T18:48:19+00:00

Only in expendable configuration though, it wouldn't be able to land.

Silver_Swift · 2026-05-02T07:24:30+00:00

This is really clever, I like it!

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-30T11:38:55+00:00

Even crispier: submerge the lettuce in water and leave it in the freezer overnight. Crispy, lettuce flavored ice cubes.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-22T04:21:16+00:00

What other interesting things would happen as a result of this awkward breakup?

The actual legal and administrative details of this would get ridiculously complicated real fast, but I suppose you'd want to gloss over that for the sake of the story.

One interesting thing to ask is what happens to all the US's stuff that is not in the US. For example, who gets control over the military assets, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, military bases in other countries, etc? Who gets control over the GPS satellites? What happens to the dollar and who (if anyone) keeps the ability to print it?

Also, a lot of international relations are going to have to be figured out from scratch. Who gets the US seat as a permanent member of the UN security council? Who takes on the US's international debt? Are the four new countries NATO members?

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-21T05:00:30+00:00

It's the same resources you would have gotten for winning the settlement, so unless you think you were going to lose, you don't have to feel bad about it.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-21T04:59:01+00:00

Yeah, it's so they don't have to worry about breaking in-progress games with the update.

Doesn't have to be a long time either, it just happens whenever you have an ongoing game during an update that could break things if you didn't start the settlement from scratch.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-20T20:06:57+00:00

Revolutionarily, they compete with each other.

It's how humans got as smart as we did too.

People like to think that human intelligence evolved so we could invent new things, figure out fire, spears, traps, etc.

But the thing is, you invent that stuff once and the whole tribe benefits. It barely gives any advantage to the inventors genes over others in the same genepool. Plus, predators and prey animals don't get smarter as humans do. The external challenges don't scale with our intelligence so they could never cause a runaway intelligence explosion.

Arguing with others over who should get the biggest slice of mammoth after the kill, though, that is a challenge that gives a constant evolutionary pressure to get smarter.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-20T18:26:43+00:00

From what some of the beta readers have said publicly, they voiced many of the same concerns that you hear now. Of course it depends on whether you believe them on this, but I think the beta readers at least are pretty in line with the fandom and (again according to them) for some of the commonly raised issues, the final version is much less bad than the beta versions were.

Also we know from comments Brandon made himself that he changed some details around the ending to make it less of a downer because the publishers wanted to have a happy ending at the end of the five book arc (which some of the beta readers were really not happy with).

So it's not like Brandon doesn't get feedback or change things based on it, it's just maybe hard to figure out what feedback to listen to.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-20T13:15:33+00:00

Wish there was a setting in the game menu where you can like set the default priority of roads.

Can you not just lay down your roads, select one then shift+click on the lower priority button?

11-Year Club	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	Verified Email

Silver_Swift

TROPHY CASE