Hol up! It's kind of unfair to blame some poor soul with a PhD in Beowulf for failing the beat the fash out of a determined dickhead over the course of a single quarter. (half serious)
I'd like to echo YNIH, this has been a wild ride. Thanks for history and the analysis! Reinventing the wheel but worse (i.e. rizzless Scientology) is certainly a trope with our subjects, isnt it?
On a side note, as someone who has enjoyed the occasional temporal lobe seizure, I wonder if Lydia ought to have a quiet word with a neurologist. The déjà vu might be a portent, but not the one you feel that it is.
And I really do sympathise with the urge to avoid being seen as extreme (imagine being percieved! by people!) but that urge leads so many clued-in folks to pose the problem of bullshit engines as a halved-loaf problem when it's a halved-baby situation, and the opposition isnt going to give anyone credit for being nice in the newspaper.
Doctorow says that we have to believe people when they say that LLMs are helpful for their work. Do we also have to believe people who say that alcohol makes them better drivers?
A nice person develops a digital version of the Little Free Library for banned books. Hackernews spends a hundred (edit: three hundred) comments arguing over whether it would be better to share Nazi shit instead.
patiently cross-stitching a piece that reads "Bless This Text"