Alex MacLaren

You can absolutely tell he’s never had therapy. It’s about parenting and boarding school; also this:

A bit at the end where he drops out to talk to the person in the bench next to him

Grammarly describing how it can detect or hide ai written text, whatever you want boss

Grammarly... Detecting AI, hiding AI, all in one snazzy service
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/expert-review

The swagger is like a time machine.

Judith Leyster self portrait

And look at this fabulously confident self portrait by Leyster

The Clouzot film?

Thank you for the recommendation!

Hoping for some Ong lore

The medical advisors supporting these people tend to look like cartoon baddies from the Dukes of Hazzard Phil

Thiel’s Straussian Moment, in (possibly) human form

Thank you - should have mentioned I once played Angelo - messed up guy and identifiable predator, but the Duke is a psychological swamp too. Isabellas face tricky choices in the rehearsal room as well as in the play

Eisenhower

Oof, i thought it might be something like that😬

Oof, i thought it might be something like that😬

Who played the Duke?

A Winter’s Tale. Families, regret, redemption, hope

With Julie Andrews in Covent Garden (1956)

Rex Harrison, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1908, in Huyton, England

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

That makes sense. For me, it’s always been reading. He did say many things that were… problematic, but that CS Lewis line in Shadowlands always hit home: ‘We read to know we are not alone’

Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s mother called him ‘an abuser of women’ Email from mother, published in the New York Times, said he mistreated women and displayed a lack of character

I think his actual mother (not sure about his dad) has more or less disowned him
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I remember having a discussion 10 years ago with a cybersecurity friend about the horrible consequences of applying SV 'disruption good' mindset at pace to politics; I do think much AI hate is not generalised fear of change, but fear of fuelling the specific changes you hint at here.

It is not a satisfactory idea I agree. Maybe the fear is that 'retreating to one's comfort zone' is quitting in some way. 'Seeking one's comfort zone' feels more like what you are describing!

There's an impressively tight description of the problematic side of GenAI nested in this thread.

This reads like the reason your three year old daughter might be emasculating you is that the shits you have are bigger than you are. Please confirm

oh maybe - apparently in Spanish LLMs, swearing is less taboo, as I was told it is in Spanish generally; in US English it apparently hints negative things to the algorithm about your intellectual level, and the response is aimed lower as a consequence

Was told by a multi-lingual AI agent coder the other day that the nature of the training process means that politeness in English when dealing with the frontier models leads to 'better quality output, fitted for more literate prompters'

First discussed this problem with a lawyer 4 years ago, and still no solution forthcoming

"I aspire to win at a shit board game that was originally designed to expose the disastrous impacts of capitalist greed"

Ah interesting. Was thinking of Chips Channon's account of his WWI, where he describes the increasing anxiety of society Parisians as the sound of howitzers grew louder week by week. He describes meeting Proust.

Ah makes sense. Weird half-blurring the eyes alone, what is that supposed to indicate?