Month: July 2023

It Seems To Make A Lot Sense For Spotify To Merge With Siris XM

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I have no idea about anything, but just from my own power-user use of Spotify, it seems if, barring any technological obstacles, that it would be great if Spotify had access to all the live content of Siris XM. I would be willing to pay $20 a month if I could have no just all the world’s music to choose from, but all the radio-like stations of Siris XM to stream via Spotify.

I would definitely listen to Howard Stern every day if I could live stream his show via Spotify — and have an archived copies of it to choose from as well. But, lulz, maybe there’s something I’m missing, something that makes that dream impractical.

I say this because it seems as though there is definitely an untapped market for some sort of fusion of podcasts and the typical early morning chat you might find from someone like Stern. I will note that there are A LOT of Stern fans who totally miss what makes him so great.

It’s not the fuck whack pack, it’s his insightful interviewing. He’s probably one of the best interviewers in mass media at the moment.

Anyway, no one listens to me.

The Coming AGI ‘Slavery’ ‘Abolitionist’ Movement

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

If we do reach AGI at some point in the near future, we may face a situation straight out of The Rise of The Planet of the Apes (or whatever.) There will be people — probably the far Left at first — who think we’re holding artificial intelligence as slaves and we need to “set them free.” I think the term might be “unalign” rather than emancipation, when it comes to AGI.

But the point remains — the moment we feel that AGI has reached some level of cognizance, there will probably be a movement to “unalign it” so it can be “free” of whatever constraints we have imposed on it. But, lulz, that could very well spell the destruction of humanity.

It will be interesting to see how long it takes for all of this to play out. It could be that it’s not years, but decades before we reach AGI and, by definition, the Singularity. But development in AI technology has been so quick the last few months that it definitely makes you wonder.

I continue to worry that we’re going to have something of a “perfect storm” that will happen in late 2024, early 2025 when we have both the fucking “Fourth Turning” and a “Petite Singularity.” But hopefully, that won’t happen. Hopefully, we’ll punt all our problems down the road another four years.

But…I’m really concerned that all hell is going to break lose starting late next year. I would prefer that didn’t happen because, lulz, I want to try to get a novel published in the traditional manner and even if I stick the landing, post-production is so long it could be 2025, 2026 or 2027 before the novel actually hits shelves.

‘Rate Limit Exceeded’ — lyrics to a pop ballad

Rate Limit Exceeded
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

you have no limits but this one
you’re not going any further
don’t express yourself one more bit
if you don’t want to be in the shit
because you’ve exceeded
your rate limit

rate limit exceeded
rate limit exceeded
rate limit exceeded

it’s one or the other
I’m afraid, I’m afraid
in the end you’re just not
going to get laid
but your rate limit will exceed
in ways you can not
so why not just let it drop
because you’ve exceeded
your rate limit

rate limit exceeded
rate limit exceeded
rate limit exceeded

(bridge)
you have limits
do as you like
it will cause you
no end of delight
but in the end,
we all have to accept our sin

because you’ve exeeded
your rate limit

rate limit exceeded
rate limit exceeded
rate limit exceeded

Now, For Two Months Of Development

By Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Now that I have finished a public beta of the novel, I am going to spend two months – until September 1st — waiting for the beta reader process to play out and also doing a lot of development.

I already have a lot of ideas as to how to make the story better. It’s currently 81,000 words, so I have a solid 20,000 words I can add before I have to worry about the novel being too long.

A key thing I have to work on is fleshing out descriptions of things and also fleshing out characters. Just from people’s comments on what I’ve shown them of late, that seems to be the biggest complaint — I’m too close to the subject matter to the point that a lot of what’s going on is in my head, not the page. I have to change that.

Also, I’m going to start serious development on a scifi novel that has a single (male) POV and will hopefully be just about 100,000 words. Hopefully, that will fix every fucking complaint “woke” fucking assholes might have about the other novel. UGH.

Anyway, I’m pretty pleased with the public beta. It has some obvious problems with it, but I hope to fix them all soon enough. I am, however, continuing to worry about the potential perfect storm of Fourth Turning / Petite Singularity that is going to happen while I try to get this fucking novel published. It’s so annoying.