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I don’t necessarily think the MM is intentionality going against AI, they’re just following what drives engagement and the mainstream tide is turning against AI (again, AI winter 3.0, here we go).

However, I did see that “AI causes delusions” article in the NYT together with the very hilarious conflict of interest notice: “The NYT is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.”

So who knows? It is entirely in the MM’s interests to both write about AI (hot topic, much engagement) and also to make the AI companies look incompetent, reckless, and dangerous because that bolsters their cases against them.

The Libs™️ thought it was very clever earlier in the summer to use the initialism T.A.C.O. for Trump Always Chickens Out. I’m glad the fad has mostly passed now, for I hope fairly obvious reasons.

One, no he doesn’t, and framing his messy wars and tariffs as “chicken” instead of “volatile, self-serving, and conniving” is really a disservice to reality. And two, Tacos are good, Trump is bad. Dont let bad people have nicknames that associate them with good things.

Yep, in The Eyes of the Overworld, we meet Cugel the Clever, literally the prototypical D&D rogue/thief. He steals from a wizard and is banished very far away for it. He eventually gets back to take revenge on the wizard and steps on a trap or something that banishes him even farther away the second time. His journey picks back up in Cugel’s Saga, a sequel novel, where he goes on more zany adventures and eventually makes it back again as I recall.