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It’s about humans presenting something plausibly awful in a deceptive way, and using a machine to be plausible and deceptive.

That’s exactly what a clanker would say, isn’t it?

The amyloid hypothesis and associated fraud covered in the TFA.


Just have an AI make a video out of it, I guess.


Replace the manpage with a tiktok clone. Every video clip is a different section of the manpage. /s


Okay I'm building this.


Because it told you so!


I am reminded of the passage in Umberto Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_ where they reconstruct a particularly wild weekend for a Templar based on the rule of the Templars and the idea that a rule exists because it's something people do.


Fresh produce is pretty inexpensive here for the most part. But fresh herbs (like thyme, not a euphemism) are sold in small quantities (15g-20g) in plastic clamshell packaging in groceries for $2-$4 each.

You don’t need a $900 gadget to grow fresh herbs, either, of course. But that’s one way you could think of it “recouping” the capital.


yeah, calories are cheap: grow for flavour/value.

In a backyard 5gal/19l bucket, I could get 3lbs/1.5kg of potatoes or 3lbs/1.5kg of cherry tomatoes. The latter is a better deal.


You can turn almost all of those buttons off in the settings and save it as a template. The only complaint I ever got was from somone who wanted to use the highlighter instead of the built-in comment management system.


There's another updated version of that prolog here along with some links, including an archived article from Microsoft Research on how it was (once upon a time) used in Windows NT network configuration: https://github.com/opless/small-prolog


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