The Claude Dialogues: Enter the Felt

It is time to confront one of the core questions that has plagued philosophers for centuries: which Muppet would triumph in a pit-fighting tournament?

Lightlark, or, How I Finally Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Takeover of Mass Market Fiction

I have been thinking a lot about the pending AI Fiction Apocalypse.

Joe Abercrombie's "The Wisdom of Crowds"

 The Age of Madness ends in the place that it has to end, I think.  All of the larger plot and character arcs make sense.  The Weaver's full scheme is revealed, and is utterly logical given what we know of the world of the First Law.  People suffer for reasons just and unjust, make necessary decisions that destroy their souls, and achieve long-desired goals only to discover that what they wanted and what would have made them happy are far from the same thing.  It's Abercrombie, in other words.