see also academia (not so much misplaced loyalty, but sunk costs and stockholm syndrome)

Nous sommes Walter (Sobchak, not the Wobot)

I'm not sure I can continue the metaphor, but this discussion/riff reminds me that even before seeing it, I have often reacted to enthusiasm for LLMs as replacing the need for teachers by thinking of @beijingpalmer.bsky.social 's old piece on chabuduo aeon.co/essays/what-...

And, importantly, if the text is wrong the LLM will be wrong. the mostly baffling aspect of the whole AI craze for me has been this insistence that within extant natural text (and mostly text available online, not all that’s ever been written) contains all of human knowledge, experience, and truth

Fairly sure that this was the first time I saw him (before Airplane, before Naked Gun, before the recurring guest role in Due South)

This feels like it should have the tagline "Set status to fun"

Vetinari in Night Watch irritates me intensely; an invincible ninja who is both martially and morally superior

My brain has just generated the words "Lanyard Cuck" and now I need to go and kill it with alcohol

"A plague a both your houses! they have made worm's meat of me"

Due to fonts, that headline makes it sound like Big Al took a wrong turn after one pint too many and stumbled upon unknown wonders

Well that's me and Ben Wong sorted I suppose