created 2025-04-08, & modified, =this.modified
Reading means approaching something is just coming into being. Italo Calvino
I was watching someone type a document, from a blank page, at a high playback speed rate. At this speed, you could see the text forming and visually growing. The edits.
I’m thinking of this concept.
A song or writing medium or file format that documents and shows the process as part of “the player.” Imagining, an “MP3” that holds the “once-was” of the nascent song.
Like, a book that when you start the book it is written before you (not in the manner of an LLM, which conceals, but the human writer.)
Or a book, where every sentence or word is present, then decays to the real text. Or a book, where each sentence unit grows, and through the edit other words and sentence bubble in and out of existence (or, mutate).
A song that does the same. Though, this is inherent to a lot of types of music (you see a buildup and a breakdown, different elements like melodies layer upon one another)
I am curious about how someone writing and editing looks, and if the different styles would be visible.
Would it be beneficial to view this time lapse of writing and editing? I’ve “fought” against hackers who are trying to access systems, and felt in us being adversaries there was a strange camaraderie possible, in that we strengthened one another by virtue of our combat. So in viewing it like this, what of the writer and the editor? Where the is a kind of adversarial interaction there.
Love
What a curious format to think of love in. Like if you could encapsulate all of the processes that made you fall in love, and the moments around someone else. Even if it were just the messages to, or adjacent to that person.
LLM Training
Are we only training on “completed” works (leaves - i.e. “finished” songs, “finished” books, “sent” messages)? If so, should we train them on these almost things? The edit-library? The revealing-important error library?
What if we trained them, on this possible once format? On this hypothetical process format?
Finishing
What is finished about the things we create? What makes them feel that way? What is the distinction?
Everything has a sense of being finished like this monitor I am looking at right now. It might have updates to it, or new versions. The files and documents were collected to make it. Why did they stop? Is it related to some other objects if we view it as not stopping?