The Grand Line

I agree it's hard to get it to output things in different styles... I started doing a side project for writing with LLMs (ailivrum.com -- my main focus being doing some writing/reading for my younger daughter right now, although I'm structuring for others to use it too).

So far what I found is that doing prompt engineering does not yield great results. LLMs just go with their own style regardless and I had not much luck changing it... it can do some interesting stories though, but it's far from just outline + prompt > gen story to get something that's readable (on the good side, there are many LLMs, so testing a different provider may give better results).

Thanks for asking! I have become an infinitely better human and friend since starting.

I used Roam, but would like to migrate to Logseq for reasons of privacy and self-sovereignty :)

My most helpful meta tags are:

[[People I Meet]] for quick descriptions of everyone I meet, even if they don't get their own page

[[versus]] for dualities I notice and want to track, like [[expansion vs collapse]] [[away vs toward]] [[linear vs cloud narrative]] etc

[["as" metaphors]] metaphors that return a lot, like [[religion as seed]] or [[god as hologram]] or [[empathy as gravity]] etc

[[reminds me of]] which I sometimes use to make connection, but often just crossed

[[self comment]] for tracking my comments around the internet

[[new tag]] for tracking when a significant new tag occurs to me for first time

[[methinks]] (for my inline thoughts on articles whose content I paste into a page, which I do for most things I read, so I can always find the content that shapes me, and my own thoughts/highlights in relation to that)

[[toread]] [[towatch]] for books and films/video

[[tears]] [[fears]] [[fave snacks]] [[star sign]] [[faves]] and a "family" bullet for things that are important in their family life.

And every day, my optional top-level bullets are: todos, finds, logs, thoughts (pretty much everything fits under these, and most under "logs", because I like to track context of where I was, who I was with)

I started just using logs every day to keep track of things I did, because during pandemic I felt like I was doing nothing at all every day except being depressed. Everything grew from that :)

Thanks for sharing your perspective.

The quote you referenced is about “the weird” feelings. Maybe its weird because I didn’t read too many novels. So its totally something personal to me. Not that weird for me = bad writing.

However, I do read a lot of LLM generated output. I spent weeks tinkering with LLM while I was asking it to ghostwrite my novels. So I was exposed to a lot of text that has this weird feelings. Which I eventually felt when I read this article.

Its like hearing a song that has the same chords so many times, and then you listen to another song that had the same chords, you might be able to know that they are kinda the same, even when you don’t listen to a lot of songs.