And this is not a limitation of LLMs that can be solved by feeding them more data - as far as I can see, it is a permanent structural limitation of technologies of this kind

LOST really broke a bunch of people's brains which ironic because the lesson I learned from LOST was "great television can come from watching people make absolutely terrible decisions that they know even as they are making them are terrible"

That last one does not quite land as intended

My eye misread the first "plate" in "Pacific Plate" as "Plato" and I was v confused/excited for about a half a second

I don't do connections any more but I think a big part of it is dividing all sixteen of the words into four groups. If you have a set of words A1 A2 A3 A4 B1 etc to D3 D4, and you find that you can put A2 B1 B2 D3 into a group that makes sense, that will leave you with B3 and B4 to match up somehow

I called rho "p" for like six years because an undergrad instructor steered me very wrong. P equals M V, we all were told.

It was a long time ago they didn't have wifi yet

Arguments about rhyming slang

The Limey? He lets Peter Fonda live at the end, though he does a lot of damage along the way.

That reads to me as a joke, a variant of the "does Putin have the piss tape?" thing

Ah! I'm not familiar (it never gets talked about!)

"Made a bajillion dollars" and "never gets talked about" and "came out after you had done significant design work on Dresden" is such a small overlap on the Venn diagram that I can't guess what game you're talking about and even though it's tangential to your point it bugs me now

Hmm yeah

Oates: [extinguishes candles with a sword flick]
Oates: so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates
Musk: datsa not true!
Musk: i sleepa in a racecar, do you?

"Girlnobody" and "girlanyone" both give me a pause I don't experience with say "girlsemiotics."

There's a beat where the bunny cop tricks the fox into providing her with a very then pretext for trespassing without a warrant, and the film presents this as the bunny being plucky and clever and not as too lazy to get a warrant

get off social media mike

There will be no AGI, there will be no colonization of mars and no robot helpers, not made by any of these people, because they don’t make anything, they manipulate stocks and build houses of cards with shell corporations