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xosctoday at 12:48 PM3 repliesview on HN

I'm sure terry pratchett, were he alive, would not appreciate the ai gif on this otherwise interesting article


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st3phveetoday at 1:13 PM

I also suspect Terry Pratchett would have had a lot to say about this sentence: "Pratchett’s [pocket editions] were small, fat, slightly battered, and printed on a kind of paper that already looked guilty." And this one: "It had Heroes, capital H, walking grimly towards their Destiny across a landscape that smelled of dwarves."

Some odd turns of phrase there that are grammatically correct, but... you know...

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rogualtoday at 1:17 PM

I'm really surprised to see everyone praising the article. It's... it's slop, isn't it?

> And then there are the memories [...] that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking over the chairs.

> Sir Terry Pratchett, who knew more about furniture than most, put it this way:

> "Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture."

He "put it this way", in the exact same words you just used? Also, he knew more about furniture than most? What? Why?

> "Mathieu and I had read every Pratchett the school library would admit to owning, plus several it would not."

This has the cadence of a witty sentence unless you're paying attention and realize it makes no sense.

> “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

> Nine words. A complete cosmology. Most physics departments would settle for that.

It's eight words, and the thing about physics departments makes no sense.

> The Author, refusing to let the Narrator off the hook.

Again, cute sentence, unless you're paying attention and you realize it doesn't mean anything.

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wizzwizz4today at 12:52 PM

It's hotlinked from the AI company's website, so it'll be gone in 6 months.