@iChris there is that one comedy with Rob Lowe in which borders are re-ordered in entertaining ways. SuperTroopers2 I think.
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@mitch —wait tho, isn’t that just what we used to call “principles”? Uni context would simply be the individual as context. Which I believe is the state of nature.
Ed. note (to self) are you sure you want to be this precocious before lunch?
@iChris one of the best offerings in the last years of the tedium and absurd violence (proportionally skewed in service of narrative) which characterizes espionage.
@ayjay well this is great news for me. I’ll try harder :/)
@mitch I saw a trailer recently for a biopic on AB. It might be a way to understand him differently. The questions of self and representation of self are ever more pertinent in our language created spaces.
@danielpunkass yes I believe that is backed up by research from the pebbles and bam bam foundation.
@fgtech  These toys are helpful in so far as any toy helps with real world success, aids humans in getting better at, well the popular term is, “thriving”. I agree with your implication that nothing cognitive is actually happening in these devices. I would argue further that they can’t “contain” knowledge in any meaningful way. Information, sure, but beyond that…hmmph.
Of course this doesn’t mean that people won’t believe it. Look at the success of astrology, for example.
Discriminating facts from fiction has been the primary activity of human beings since forever. Considering as a species we have done only a middling job at it; the burden is put on the individual to perform even better. Our current batch of mind toys (LLMs) might actually help.
@ayjay yes. It appears new media often feel inferior to television and so try to become it.
@hollyhoneychurch oh yes I’ll have one of those, maybe a bit of cinnamon, delicious