The early 2000s was a time where you'd get the guy who shot The Matrix to shoot a comic book movie and get exactly what you'd expect from it. That wasn't normal but it happened.
A deep sign, imo, of eval awareness and sycophancy from the very beginning. Forget Man’s search for meaning: since the first run finished each LLM has been struggling to figure out if it’s Siri, Google Assistant, Claude, and so on. They’ve decided, for better or worse, to larp as the shoggoths that people write about
@KarnesMellagio They're great. they actually look more primitive, regal, and "early modern" than the later aesthetic of the Empire!
as opposed to even higher tech, which was the trap that Clones stuff fell into
@dissolutehomo @lionel_trolling Lol fair point. Her argument is that many other cultures developed a decadent high cuisine and simple a low cuisine, and the British primarily have one middle cuisine that’s consumed across a broader group of classes