Eric -

I have read Roanhorse's post-Apocalyptic /Trail of Lightning/... and tripped over the controversy over the subtle/complicated claims of Tribal identity and cultural appropriation.  I didn't read more of her work because after this novel she veered further into *fantasy* which is not my genre-of-choice so much.   The description of this short  story (very highly heralded) would seem to suggest significant irony regarding the criticism she drew for her subsequent novel?

For the PostModernists (or adjacent) among us, I wonder if this whole tangle isn't very PoMo with her simultaneous inhabitation and critique of systems of representation?  Did Marcus response go full PoMo as well?

All this aside, can you elaborate the relevance of why you injected this into this thread at this point?   Stylistic similarity to Glen's allegorical character study of obnoxious little green men as LLM? (or vice-versa?).   The little green men, very superficially reminded me of Spielberg's /Gremlins/?

- Steve

On 4/29/25 2:41 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

Keeping with superdeterminism, I like am pleased to see suggested questions at the bottom of George.

When it truly has omniscience, I will be able to simply click on the suggested question and I will be unnecessary.

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    On Apr 29, 2025, at 22:04, glen <[email protected]> wrote:

    More like if little green creatures came into my kitchen to cook
    up some stinky fish ... and then leave the kitchen all messy for
    me to clean up ... the whole house stinking of fish for days ...
    until they show up again just when it stopped stinking. And as
    time goes on, they're going to show up more often ... not merely
    to stink up the house with fish, but to re-landscape the yard,
    paint the house ugly colors, paint garish murals on all the inside
    walls, swap out my truck for a "truck" from Elno, and replace the
    beer in my fridge with fscking *seltzer*.

    And they'll eventually get on my keyboard and start doing "work"
    for my clients ... work the clients didn't ask for and don't want
    ... until they convince them they do want it ... then the little
    green creatures will evict me and I'll go live under a bridge.

    On 4/28/25 10:14 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

        I know.  If small green bipedal creatures landed on earth and
        started tending to yardwork would that also be a disappointment?
        They’ve failed to trim my tall hedge, so curse them!
        *From:*Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of
        *Nicholas Thompson
        *Sent:* Monday, April 28, 2025 9:44 AM
        *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
        <[email protected]>
        *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The comparative thickness of the
        tropospheree
        Hi  Marcus,
        I find that George's indulgence with bad metaphor very useful.
        I  also find amazing his ability to grasp the gist of what I
        am asking.  I have essential tremor and a bad keyboard and
        still George almost always gets the message.  Siri will take
        any opportunity to misunderstand.
        In this case, it was I, not George, who was cranking out the
        sloppy metaphors, trying to find a way to convey just how thin
        the atmosphere is.  I was hoping Saran wrap thin, but that
        appears to be an order of magnitude too far.
        Am I reading this wrong? people often talk about LLM's as if
        they are /disappointed/ in them, as if there is something they
        SHOULD do that they aren't doing.  Do you have any idea what
        the disappointment might be?: What is the world hankering for
        that they don't provide?
        Nick
        On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM Marcus Daniels
        <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]%20%3cmailto:[email protected]>>>
        wrote:
           I wonder if the George makers 1) realized that people have
        an affinity to iffy analogies and they should give the people
        what they want, or 2) the LLM was prone to generating them so
        they just made it a feature?
           *From:*Friam <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]
        
<mailto:[email protected]%20%3cmailto:[email protected]>>>
        *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Thompson
           *Sent:* Sunday, April 27, 2025 8:12 PM
           *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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        <mailto:[email protected]%20%3cmailto:[email protected]>>>
           *Subject:* [FRIAM] The comparative thickness of the
        tropospheree
           George and I were looking for intuition pumps to help a
        reader imagine how very thin the troposphere is.   Here is
        what we came up with:

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