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• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  the purpose of human authors is rather different: they produce lies Well, no. Fiction is presented as fiction. Lies are presented as fact with intent to deceive....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  when the important decisions affecting many, many people's lives are made by an algorithm that actually DOES take human happiness into account? Again, we need to work backwards from this to get a coherent conclusion out. Even assuming that "human...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  The concept of sentient NPCs is maybe one step removed from Disneyland cast members. It's a completely excellent idea, it works, it's positive. Provided they're treated with respect....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Oh, forgot to add, the phrase "The purpose of a system is what it does" was originally coined by Stafford Beer....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  As for me, I guess my reaction was to write short fiction heavily influenced by what I saw....
• Posted Make Up a Guy to Charlie's Diary
  Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had declared that mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men. — "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", Jorge Luis Borges, tr. James E. Irby the...
• Commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  Thank you for the warm welcome! Blog post proper goes up sometime tomorrow most likely. I find talking about myself in the third person awkward. Here is a link to Wordle. Playing it is by far the simplest way to...
• Posted Make Up a Guy to Charlie's Diary Test Bed
  Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had declared that mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men. — "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", Jorge Luis Borges, tr. James E. Irby the guymaker is a chaotic diety. with the ability to create human-like "guys" i could do something productive but instead I choose to make weird people who I get to watch do weird things. there is rarely an agenda behind any given guy other than "heh. funny" — Twitter user @makeupaguy Imagine that you could push a button and create a...