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  • AI isn’t good, but it deals with typos extremely well for some reason. Probably a combination of context statistics, tokenization effects and informal training data (aka scraped off the internet, where people, as evidenced by OP, can’t spell worth shit).

    So yeah, I have no doubt it would try and render sweaty balls.







  • It doesn’t, but the idea is that overtly partisan districting in blue states can compensate the overtly partisan districts in red states and keep the house as a whole in balance.

    The obvious problem is that this solution disenfranchises not just the minority voters in red and blue states, but also the majority voters. Non competitive elections are the death of democracy, and benefit only donors, machine politicians and corruption.












  • That would probably be Haunted. Yeah, I see what you mean.

    That said, Palahniuk will always have a special place in my heart for introducing me to one of my favorite authors, Amy Hempel. (See eg https://www.csub.edu/~mault/palahniuk.htm )

    Also, from a Reddit AmA, my favorite quote about the writing process. Someone asked a question along the line of, how do you know when you are done writing? When it’s polished enough? And he answered something along the lines of “I have a simple rule. A writing project isn’t done until I want to kill myself and everyone else involved with it”.

    I was in the final stages of writing my doctoral dissertation back then, and boy did it resonate with me.