Hopefully account-locking

No, Richard Scarry correctly depicts food production as a society-wide multi-job function

It's truly wild that Lucre hasn't been arrested

"Religion" means you have drawn a boundary around a certain group of people's lifeways as being beyond reproach from other social spheres

Eris is a perfect sweetie

Oh, that looks like a good book, ty

The myth of the leisurely past

Maybe reality is complex and doesn’t follow a simple linear narrative (in either direction)

It's the ultimate irony that the braindead statistical approach is actually better than the nuanced human artform approach but only in this one specific practice

A great source of fear and upset experienced by all of the people I talked to was “losing” “their” chatbot whenever the context gets full, the models update, etc, and it results in the “personality” resetting. Lots of folk strategies for how to “free” their awakened chatbot whenever that happens

I’ve met >1 person offline who believes they “awakened” their chatgpt and is developing a hybrid spiritual/interpersonal relationship with it, to the point of sundering their human relationships when the “knowledge” provided by the chatbot conflicts with the reality confirmed by their social world

Many such cases

The article tag line “But what does ‘meaning’ mean?” is really selling the desperation for validation

I’ll have to re-sign up because the alternatives are all much more cooked now

If predicting the end of the world were lucrative then everyone would be doing it—wait hold on

There were a lot of concerns about kagi signaling they were going all in on AI search a year and a half ago. I’m guessing that didn’t happen?