Kirk Hamilton

We talked about this more in the main feed episode, but now we can kind of just fully talk about everything that happens in it.

And I kind of want to talk about it more in part because I've been listening to some other folks talk about this game.

The guys on Nextlander in particular talked about it and they talked pretty openly about how they played.

And I didn't actually realize how many different ways you can play through this part of the game.

Oh, interesting.

I'm a little curious.

How did the two of you get through the area?

Like just in terms of how many zombies?

Yeah.

So last week we talked about AI and we cited a blog post by an astrophysicist named Minas Karamanis.

And he wrote about like AI and how it de-skills people and so on and so forth.

And since that

episode we got an interesting email from someone going by the name boxo mcfoxo who wrote a pretty long blog post laying out a case that the essay that we cited was in fact written by ai

And so this guy, this boxo guy lays out a pretty compelling case, including one piece of evidence that I found most compelling, which is that the original essay quotes Frank Herbert in one of the Dune books and writes the sentence like,

quote, things we do without thinking, semicolon, there's the real danger.

But in the actual book, that semicolon is an em dash.

And that kind of implies that one thing you might do if you're writing an AI is do a control F and find and replace all the em dashes for semicolons.

To make it seem like you didn't use AI, which is the only way I can think of that a quote from a book would be turned from an em dash into a semicolon.

But he lays out a bunch of other cases, too.

It's pretty compelling.