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LogicFailsMe • today at 4:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I don't think it ever gets old to restate that the singularity and all of the gradiose promises of a glorious 21st century have last mile problems.

But this post seems to mostly channel Harlan Ellison. And while he was amazing in his prime, with some absolutely legendary rants, he didn't age well in the end.

I do like his challenge to make LLMs useful to himself and to other authors though. Someone needs to make that happen and nearly exactly how he described it.

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ben_w • today at 7:32 PM

  I'd quite like a tool (running entirely locally on my own hardware, with no cloud service and no copyright-thieving grifters making bank on it via subscription fees) that digests a manuscript and derives a scene-by-scene timeline, that I could then query interactively and use to plan my next round of edits. Being able to map out where and when each protagonist and minor character shows up, and see a frequency distribution heat map of names in the manuscript, would be useful.
I'm sure I've read about Hollywood scriptwriters having tools like this.

(Or is this just the Gell-Mann amnesia effect striking again?)