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cool? 😥

Have you seen this: eev.ee/blog/2025/07... ?

Dahl's 'The Great Automatic Grammatizator', also excellent, was written in 1954: gwern.net/doc/fiction/...

It's why, fundamentally, literacy is always about more than knowing the words.

There’s so much of the 21st century where my reaction was “no, 1984 was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual”

Here is a better hat tip link bsky.app/profile/alex...

My faith in humanity rose after we hyped it for about 1 month and then collectively realised it was low effort and not worth attention and ultimately cringe. Good work humans for recognising bots can't do great art.

Delighted to find Alex Blechman on Bluesky:

Imagine if we invented a TV that spies on us, haha that would be wild

You two are talking like you haven’t heard time machines are a whole thing now. Or, you know, will be.

Check out the short sci-fi story "The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster, written in 1909: www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teach..., which predicts video calls, instant messaging, the Internet, collapse of the ecosystem, and machine-generated art ... and the chaos caused by the titular event.

We need a TIRL (today I relearned). That's my favorite book, but I had totally forgot about that.

Sounds like AI to me… hardly surprising. It is not a new idea. The only thing that is new is the nonsense that gets spoken about it in just about every media source one can mention. One thing rarely spoken about: cost to the electricity grid, to the environment, and ultimately, the consumer.

"A special kind of kaleidoscope" is an evocative and not entirely inaccurate way to describe generative AI.