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And I shall call him, Mini-Me!

And much of Eastern Europe.

Boris’ female child gets Borisova as a lastname.

There are a LOT of swedes named Something-son, but that’s a leftover from before there was an official last name system.

Nowadays, Dutch people always keep their maiden name. You can choose a preferred name to be addressed by, but your passport will always show you Bob Billson and Anna Aarons. You can choose to both use Billson, or Aarons, or Aarons-Billson if you want, but your passport doesn’t change.

And recently, parents got the ability to pick their children’s lastname. So Anna and Bob can keep using their birth name, but use Billson-Aarons for their kids.

They can even do something incredibly stupid, like call themselves Anna and Bob Billson, and name their kids Charly and Debbie Aarons. So kids are allowed to take their mother’s maiden name here.

Historical fun fact:

Back in Ye Olde Days, movies didn’t have sound. But it had some amazing moviestars, since it takes a LOT of skill to make a convincing character with no sound.

But then, they invented “Talkies” (as in, movies where people talk). And suddenly, people like Pola Negri, a polish actress with a VERY heavy accent had some major issues. Same for Karl Dane, who had (humorously) a heavy Danish accent. They both went from top-of-the-line, A-list actors to basically nobody. Karl Dane ended up comitting suicide over it.

Other actors, like Charlie Chaplin, just really didn’t do many Talkies, except for a few VERY famous ones, his speach in the Great Dictator is famous for a reason.

Google made the huge mistake of placing the CEO of adds in charge of search.

And now it fucking sucks.

They’re extremely good at giving what looks like a correct answer,

Exactly. Sometimes the thing that looks right IS right, and sometimes it’s not. The stochastic parrot doesn’t know the difference

Trouble is that ‘quick answers’ mean the LLM took no time to do a thorough search.

LLMs don’t “search”. They essentially provide weighted parrot-answers based on what they’ve seen elsewhere.

If you tell an LLM that the sky is red, they will tell you the sky is red. If you tell them your eyes are the colour of the sky, they will repeat that your eyes are red. LLMs aren’t capable of checking if something is true.

Theyre just really fast parrots with a big vocabulary. And every time they squawk, it burns a tree.

LLMs can’t distinguish truth from falsehoods, they only produce output that resembles other output. So they can’t tell the difference between human and AI input.

That cat does not look happy.

That’s where blood is supposed to be

Cats > humans

This is absolutely the best non-comedy Lesley Nielsen movie. Poor man already had the same haircut even back then.