@MaxBarry

I write things.

 Melbourne, Australia
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Joined March 2009
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"You liked Madison May, here are 44 more books about the exact same thing." thenerddaily.com/45-multiver…

45 Mind-Melting Books About the Multiverse That Will Shatter Your Reality | The Nerd Daily

Get ready to turn those dreams into reality (or rather, multiple realities) with these 45 mind-melting books about the multiverse.

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Oh, AI, I just can't keep away from you maxbarry.com/2023/07/17/news…

Everyone Except Me is Wrong About AI

I wrote about AI already, but that was about how we’re all going to die. Since then, the conversation has become more nuanced. Now I’m encountering more subtle ideas I think are totally wrong. So...

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Exciting life update: I'm finally going full-time freelance for book cover design 😱 Publishers and art directors, if you like what you see, reach out to me for an upcoming project. Feel free to share❤️And see more work here: mattmakesbooks.com
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Viral influencer-led "hydration drink" people are reselling for crazy prices because you can't buy it anywhere. What an idea! citizen.co.za/lifestyle/food…

WTF is Prime Drink and why does it cost R500 a pop?  | The Citizen

Here's everything you need to know about Prime Drink which is trending in South Africa and costs between R400 and R700.

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New blog, in which I find another reason to put marketing people in jail. maxbarry.com/2023/04/05/news…

Stochastic Road Murder

The free market is great and all, but I do have an issue with this part, where companies promote 2.5-ton urban assault vehicles to people who can be talked into dropping $100,000 by telling them it’s...

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AI will definitely write a lot of guilty pleasure books in the near future. But also good authors will become AI curators, guiding AI through the process of building the book, accepting and rejecting scenes & ideas. Like you can already do with image generation inpainting.
Lev Grossman@leverus26 Mar 2023
Replying to @leverus
Even if an AI can write a book in my style that's only 80% as good as mine, it will do it 250,000x faster and for free or a tiny fraction of the price. I have to think the market will go for that trade-off
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Bravo @danscho1 for inserting me into the opening paragraph of a Telegraph article on the state of English rugby. More journalists should do that. telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/…

England’s pathways system was destroyed and left them playing catch-up

Although England's junior teams are starting to get back on track, the impact of some costly decisions are still being felt

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My blog after this one will be, "Why I'm an Optimist" maxbarry.com/2023/03/14/news…

End of the World, with Terminators

So this AI business, huh, this is getting some traction. It’s evolving so fast, just the other day I had to go back and take out all the parts in the book I’m working on that carefully establish the...

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I'm judging this microfiction competition where you can win $500 for 200 words. And you already know what I like. So you have an edge. brimbank.vic.gov.au/events/m…
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The catch is that you need to be in a very specific geographic area
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One of the clearest and most inspiring critiques of chatbots comes from science fiction writer #TedChiang, whose instant-classsic critique was called "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web": newyorker.com/tech/annals-of… 34/
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It took a while but I finally configured Twitter so Elon tweets only appear in my feed as the butt of sassy takedowns.
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I unfollowed Mr Musk weeks ago but people are still getting this…
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Okay this one is pretty accurate.
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You realize the AI is just telling us what we want to hear, right? It doesn't care if it's correct. We reward it when it makes us happy and we're not smart enough to punish its lies.
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NationStates Turns 20 Today dlvr.it/Sch4t6
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20 years ago today, I was like, "Maybe if I made a game where people could create their own country, they would read my books." maxbarry.com/2022/11/12/news…

NationStates Turns Twenty

So I normally keep my NationStates stuff separate from this blog. But it’s 20 years today since I launched a little web game in the hope that it would promote my novel Jennifer Government, and help...

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imagine being the guy at tesla whose job it is to fix the whole cars-hitting-people thing rn. just leaving elon 100 voicemails. like hey man hope youre having fun with your app. listen the car hit another birthday clown. we think it may be on purpose. anyway good luck with the $8
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