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Finally got my own physical box of the @oblique_strategies set. It's from 1975, and it feels like that, too. In the best possible way.

As serendipity wants it, I came across a study today that compared LLMs with Oblique Strategies set as creativity support tools (CSTs)

"The use of an LLM as a CST [makes] the LLM’s users feel more creative, and even broaden the range of ideas suggested by each individual user, but also homogenize the ideas suggested by different users."

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3635636…

In other words, while LLMs might help individual users to become more creative, it does so for everyone in the same way. Thus, collectively, creativity is diminished.

This finding at the group level has been repeated a few times now in different studies.

This is not the case with the Oblique Strategies. Perhaps because applying these strategies is hard and requires the examination of one's own position and process.

Thanks to @remixtures for the pointer to the New Yorker article which contained the pointer to the cited study.

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Sorry for the late reply but the driver stuff was me trying out proprietary vs community Nvidia drivers and then just weird things that would happen on restarts after switching/updating drivers. I have an intermittent issue where the primary monitor (I have two) alternates being entirely light grey, red, blue, and green upon startup I haven't researched it yet because I just restart the computer and it is fine. And it has happened maybe 3 times over the last month (amongst dozens of restarts). There are a few things like that that only happened once so I wrote off the occurrence.

I have had the most luck with the proprietary Nvidia driver so far.

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Congrats to CAL's Children's Book finalists: Little Lou and Just Being You by Leslie Mitchell Assini, The Year Santa Took the Toys Back by Sheri Cobb South, and Cat & Rabbit by J. B. Stockings.
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CAL's Mainstream/Literary Finalists are Chocolata by Jerry Fabyanic, The Wild Road Home by Melissa Payne, and Burying Norma Jeane by Leah Rogin. Congrats!
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@MostlyHarmless The current Republicans have learned almost perfectly from history, that's why they've worked long and hard capturing the media, made their game plan into a detailed document and had everything set up for hijacking the rest of the checks & balances when they were back in power.
The one or two things they didn't learn is that there will always be resistance, no matter how hard the boot stomps, and they didn't realize that there's been a lot of organizing.
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CAL's Sci Fi Finalists are Messenger by Collin Irish, KEID: A Lost Civilization by Robert G. Williscroft, and Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga by Dave Jilk. Congratulations!
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Congrats to CAL's Juvenile Cover Design finalists: Jessica Santiesteban for Always Flying Bobby by C.S. Boyll, Flo Minowa for The Year Santa Took the Toys Back by Sheri Cobb South, and Anna-Maria Crum for Skippy, Farm Dog of the Year by Anna-Maria Crum and Laura Adams.
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Congrats to CAL's Nonfiction Finalists, Fiddler on the Roof of Africa: How to Fail Successfully as a Peace Corps Volunteer by Derek Lowstuter, In the Land of Forgetfulness: Meditations on Dementia Care as Spiritual Formation by Wayne A Ewing, and The December Dilemma: U.S. Christmas Stamps 1962-1972 by Jody Pritzl.
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