Huh ok interesting. So if I’m speaking more formally and using words like antithetical and constituency, it’s harder for a computer to imitate than if I’m feeling more informal and saying things like “idk I can’t see it fsr but that’s cool tho”,? Is that correct? I’m interested why that would be; I know nothing about that type of thing. You’re also not required to explain; this is just a shower thought not “write a 5-paragraph essay”. I’m just curious.

I guess I don’t understand how my personal language could be long or short

I had to stop reading them before bed! They’re legitimately unsettling. It’s fun!

Idk if the knife could have helped here, man

No exploding pink drinks!

An interesting question is: why does the truth have to be immediately useful? Why would it be that truth must benefit you, or me, or any of us?

And- if it must be useful— is it not useful to have an idea, an inexact but working model, of the way the world exists independent of ourselves?

This is my favorite response

A truth that can never be known, though, is an assumption. The inability of you or me to know something to be true does not mean that another human, or another creature of a different kind, cannot know it. I think dismissing the value of truth “because we cannot know it”, and presuming it inaccessible, is kind of a reach.

That’s so interesting! I love things like that. Language is so cool. Also words that look or sound like one you know in your language but aren’t related… I forget the term for them. But like avocat in French not being avocado lol. My Arabic teacher called them “false friends,” and I think it’s fun to try to trace connections to them anyway.

I mean, they can do whatever they want. So can I.

What do you mean? Curiosu

But the wounds weren’t fresh. Which means it’s been there a long time. Remember how Helen introduced them, as “Mary, Julia, and (pause) … and Charlie.”

Probly Mark Twain. He apparently said everything.