"My opinion of God has never been lower," "Christopher Tolkien is Morgoth," and "Dragons are boats" are each, in their own way, the most each of our hosts have ever cooked

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I texted this immediately to Aaron, and I've partially stolen here the joke he made in response.

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I appreciate this response, thank you. I take it as the aspiration the Times had in publishing this piece, and it is a noble one. Sadly, though, the staff involved in reporting & editing this article seem to have missed the mark, specifically regarding the 'unflinching view of its implications.'

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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

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tho truly one thing i am interested in future historians picking over is how certain elements of late 20th c. US pop culture spectacle used to signify 'fiction' (destructive attacks on iconic landmarks, a black president, an absurdly evil joke president) were systematically actualized by the 21st

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