00:00:00 Intro.

00:03:18 Stories. Why do they fascinate us? Mechanism of emotional manipulation.

00:06:45 True to life vs realistic. Startrek. Dramatic real stories are rarely good.

00:10:08 GPT and stories. How to build stories word-by-word. What is creativity? Information and meaning. Saturation in the story space. Alignment of living and writing.

00:19:25 Yellowstone. What makes a story good? Lioness. Average is OK but don't expect to get payed for it.

00:23:24 GPT and storywriting. Write us a joke about migrants. A new episode of Sherlock.

00:28:54 Art = fire + algebra. A good story makes you want to stop watching it and reengage with your life.

00:31:53 Fire in children and mystics. Chickens: individuals vs a category. Surprise and predictability. Intelligence is overrated.

00:39:46 Christianity. The tension and harmony between the transcendent and the particular. The role of lived experience in storywriting.

00:45:47 The zombie myth. Metaverse. Transhumanism. What is AI after? Zuckerberg and jujitsu.

00:57:44 AGI singularity vs narrow social media AI. Cautious humbleness and exploration. Personalized storytelling and an autistic world. Disembodiment.

01:15:50 GPT: how to use it for writing better stories? Support the research process then go and face real life. Paradoxically it will slow down the writing process.

01:22:16 Love: learning by loving vs just downloading knowledge.

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Artwork: DALL-E

Music: Bea Palya https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBDp3qcFZdU1yoWIRpMSaZw

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