Sorry, I meant to change only the headings you didn't want (but that won't work for text that's already paragraph-style, so I suppose that wouldn't fix the bold issue in any case; I apologize for mixing things up!).

Testing it out in a draft, it seems like having paragraph breaks before and after a single line of bold text might be what triggers index inclusion? In which case you can likely remove the offending entries by replacing the preceding or subsequent paragraph break with a shift-enter (still hacky, but at least addressing the right problem this time XD).

A relatively easy solution (which would, unfortunately, mess with your formatting; not sure if there's a better one that doesn't do that) might be to convert everything you don't want in there to paragraph style instead of heading 1/2/3

I'm not sure the deletions are a learnt behavior—base models, or at least llama 405b in particular, do this too IME (as does the fine-tuned 8b version).

And I think you believe others to experience this extra thing because you have failed to understand what they're talking about when they discuss qualia.

Ziz believes her entire hemisphere theory is an infohazard (IIRC she believes it was partially responsible for Pasek's death), so terms pertaining to it are separate from the rest of her glossary.

Neither of them is exactly what you're looking for, but you might be interested in lojban, which aims to be syntactically unambiguous, and Ithkuil, which aims to be extremely information-dense as well as to reduce ambiguity. With regards to logical languages (ones which, like lojban, aim for each statement to have a single possible interpretation), I also found Toaq and Eberban just now while looking up lojban, though these have fewer speakers.

For people interested in college credit, https://modernstates.org/ offers free online courses on gen-ed material which, when passed, give you a fee waiver for CLEP testing in the relevant subject; many colleges, in turn, will accept CLEP tests as transfer credit. I haven't actually taken any tests through them (you need a Windows computer or a nearby test center), so I can't attest to the ease of that process, but it might interest others nonetheless.

Plots that are profitable to write abound, but plots that any specific person likes may well be quite thin on the ground.

I think the key here is that authors don't feel the same attachment to submitted plot ideas as submitters do (or the same level of confidence in their profitability), and thus would view writing them as a service done for the submitter. Writing is hard work, and most people want to be compensated if they're going to do a lot of work to someone else's specifications. In scenarios where they're paid for their services, writers often do write others' plots; consider e.g. video game novelizations, franchises like Nancy Drew or Animorphs, and celebrity memoirs. (There are also non-monetized contexts like e.g. fanfiction exchanges, in which participants write a story to someone else's request and in turn are gifted a story tailored to their own.)

I wouldn't describe LLMs' abilities as wonderful, but IME they do quite serviceable pastiche of popular styles I like; if your idea is e.g. a hard-boiled detective story, MilSF, etc., I would expect an LLM to be perfectly capable of rendering it into tolerable form.

d. Scratching an itch.

You can try it here, although the website warns that it doesn't work for everyone, and I personally couldn't for the life of me see any movement.

Thanks for the link! I can only see two dot-positions, but if I turn the inter-dot speed up and randomize the direction it feels as though the red dot is moving toward the blue dot (which in turn feels as though it's continuing in the same direction to a lesser extent). It almost feels like seeing illusory contours but for motion; fascinating experience!