Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 7

A Friendly Argument With My Work

My creative work is a friend. A very enthusiastic friend, and sometimes a friend who needs reining in, but a friend all the same.

Another Planet's Hell, And All That

Psychic agony is a totally legitimate and human reaction to things being out of control.

You Cannot Help But Be Of Your Moment

You cannot help but be of your moment. The trick is to be��not only that.

Smarter Than Your Average Electrified Sandpile

I don't think for a minute LLMs are actually intelligent. I do think they are very good at playing into our ideas about��what we think intelligence is.

Who Made The Rules And Why

On my suspicion that most of the "rules of good writing" are essentially gatekeeping operations

One Door Opened, Another Almost Closed

"Charisma" not quite done. But "Pavilion 7" begins anyway.

The Cult(ure) Of Self-Reliance

"By your own bootstraps" was originally sarcasm.

Unearthed Arcana

On "Arcane", the best TV in years, as a teaching example.

In Defense Of The Quaint And The Amateurish

Or: Why can't a book just be a book for the people who just want a book?��

Neil-hism

Attempting to say something about the Neil Gaiman situation.