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Monday links, oh the irony
Venkatesh Rao: Rediscovering Irony. I have had people call me cynical since early childhood, where I was merely being ironic. Rao notes one thing humans excel at that LLMs can’t do is irony — yay! — though he limits his discussion of irony in religion to Hinduism. Isn’t Christianity supremely ironic?
Anna Havron: The Haunted Smart House. Ghosts in the machine, and there will be more and more of them.
Aidan Walker: who is “you” in a livestream? I have never listened to this Nick Fuentes person but he sounds like a complete douchebag. What could he possibly have against board games?
Ernie Smith: The Pancake Discussion. Not the analogy I would have gone with since pancakes are too wholesome to stand in for social media. If they were a food I would imagine they would be Twizzlers: silly, tasteless, pointless empty calories.