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I think some of this is because books are a smaller endeavor than film/TV, with much less interference from the establishment at the creative level. I sure wouldn't want the job of trying to convince television executives to fund content detrimental to their self-interest for artistic purposes.

Intolerable Cruelty is just so unbelievably quotable and manages to translate classic slapstick into SOCIAL contexts incredibly brilliantly. It's like watching the Stooges but for wordplay!

I learned about him from the absolute masterpiece "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson! One of the most incredible books I've ever read.

I love the math of this because you have a 4/6 chance of at least getting a decent meal, but it's also important to point out that sixes explode in PizzaDice -- every once in a while, you get a real life-altering experience

A platonic gourd, no less!

Go for it!

Thanks for a great discussion!

Oh, I'm in the area! I'll stop by!

Isn't the Murderbot setting just like... default human awfulness but in space, though?

The story of how this show got made and continued to overcome so many production hurdles to reach an incredible finish is one of the stories that keeps me going in tough times! Truly, one of the purest and most blessed things in this timeline.

My absolute favorite fact about JavaScript is that it was originally conceived as "Scheme for the browser" but then had a bunch of changes made for "ease of use by non-programmers". I can't imagine a more psychotic combination of objectives!

I'm torn, because on the one hand a lot of people foreseeing the Industrial Revolution viewed the aftermath as a horrible dystopia, but on the other hand, (gestures at everything)

Omigosh, this is so cute!

Fabulousness tax!

You MONSTER. I INVOLUNTARILY giggle-snorted when I hit the Nash Equlibrium panel.

This puts into words something I've always been aware of, but never really been able to articulate. Thank you for the insight!

I appreciate your feedback! I agree that both of those concepts can be very useful in the appropriate contexts -- however, I humbly suggest in turn that any serious AI theorist is well-served by reading softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... at any experience or expertise level in the field. Thank you!

Happy to help! You can find a basic definition at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea, and some additional context can also be found at www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...!

Great question! LLM semantic weights are deterministic -- it's a bit like rolling dice to generate a random encounter, then declaring the dice "had a great idea for an encounter". If you want to learn more, check out Markov generators!