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An AI reality check adjustment nuking Oracle and the Ellisons would be objectively worth it.

It ends with an implicit call to declare our giant piles of leaking, rat-infested trash bags as historical landmarks. If this was written as intentional satire of the excesses of the historical preservation movement, I would say don’t change a word.

My 6th grade teacher (bless you, Connie Corwin, wherever you are) took two weeks to have our entire class learn to touchtype and it was probably the single most consequential thing to happen to me in primary school. Composing papers feels effortless when you can type nearly as fast as you can talk.

Oh boy we’re doing shoe discourse again! With all respect to Sir Terry: a pair of shoes that costs $100 now and $100 again in 12-18 months is for many a better deal than a pair that costs $400 right now and lasts 2-4 years: that extra $300 earns interest or buys food.

As a sidebar on this, I’m increasingly convinced that we lost something important when softcore porn basically disappeared as a category. Pornhub is great but if you’re a 12 or 13 year old just getting curious about sex, it’s straight into the deep end. Just getting to see someone naked is enough!

RETVRN? Yeah probably, although I’m not sure how you’d duplicate the Intergenerational Playboy/Penthouse Delivery System (ie: finding a pile of them in the woods and falling to your knees to thank a beneficent god) in the digital era.