Thanks! I'm the artist and it's nice to see this recognised. I have been worried with this project that people might think I should just use a LLM, but I think there is value in how controllable and explainable this is.
(for the opposite direction, see https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/ )
I've been working on an idea I am calling the Story Empathizer. The struggle I'm having is that my idea is so abstract, it's hard to write an instance of it.
story = meaning + expression
When we communicate with natural language, we start without shared context. If I want to be understood, I must share my context. I do that by writing a second story: a backstory. The reader uses that backstory to define the meaning of my expression.
With shared context, we aren't limited to reading. We have all the parts of the equation, and can use them to read, write, and empathize.
read: meaning = story - expression
write: expression = story - meaning
Can somebody explain this or is it one of the generated sentences in question?
Meaninglessness (because a product of a random process)
is liminal (because it's betwixt and between, neither meaningful[0] nor meaningless[2])
because the context is shared (the vocabulary for the generator —the context shared between we meaningful creatures and the stochastic parrot program— are constraints, especially chosen by the artist to be evocative no matter how they are combined)
[0] compare SLN:
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like[1] she's singing
Ooh ooh ooh
Ajax in the Little Iliad —having turned Athena's grey eyes green by managing to tank without asking her for buffs— is driven mad[2] by her shortly after he loses a prize to Odysseus: he interprets the greek cows, instead of saying "moo", as saying "μου" (mine), each claiming the prize for herself, not for him ... and so he kills them all.
In a less sanguine vein, Pechkin the Postman also has a nervous breakdown after thinking Khvatayka the Jackdaw is continually asking him "kto tam?" (both a fairly corvidesque sound and "who's there?" in russian) despite his efforts to explain that he's the postman bringing a magazine.
[2] in The Eden Express (1975), Mark Vonnegut points out that maybe he could've figured out he was going schizophrenic, if only he'd stopped to notice that everything had suddenly become meaningful.
Have you considered using wordnet to explore the space of related words? IIRC they encoded all sorts of relationships, from the obvious like synonyms and antonyms, to less common like metonyms etc.
I have another article about it here - https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408291 (10 days ago)