they're saying that LLMs lead to pleasing and insightful conversations in their experience.

Yeah, as would eliza (at a much lower cost).

It's what they're designed to do.

But the point is that calling them conversations is a long stretch.

You're just talking to yourself. You're enjoying the conversation because the LLM is simply saying what you want to hear.

There's no conversation whatsoever going on there.

Lemon ice cream is great, though.

Also, apples, acidic..? I hate all apples except Granny Smiths because they taste sweet and cloying as fuck... Granny Smiths are the only ones I've ever found with a nice acidic taste...

That's because it's conning you, like a mentalist would.

every human alive is guilty

We are, though, if we're not actively doing our best to stop all this. We're all at least necessary accomplices.

You're a necessary accomplice. Organise. Burn shit up and build better things on top of the ashes.

I'm both, and while I do hate myself, I don't think it's related, so I'm not sure I get it.

(I hate computers more, though, except when they're turned off — no bugs when they're off —, but they're the only thing I'm good enough at to make a living off of.)

Well, this is going to be golden, isn't it..?

The post specifically mentions blue eyes and blond hair, both of which are recessive, if I'm not mistaken.

This makes me think it might have been written by someone who knew what recessive traits are and was just mocking the particular brand of racist that would want to perform “an epic bleaching”...

Yeah. Fucking birds should've gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of the fucking dinosaurs. Fuck'em. It's the age of mammals now!

Here's how to do it in 6 easy steps.

And the end result:

being super wealthy and successful is always going to confer some degree of cool.

Sure...
More often than not it's a negative degree, though.

(Also, success is extremely relative; ask the previous example's children how successful he is as a father figure, for instance...)

Malaphor.

makes it sound like they're all equal, and there hasn't been any progression

Programming peaked with Lisp (and SQL for database stuff).

Every “progression” made since Lisp has been other languages adding features to (partially but not quite completely) do stuff that could already be done in Lisp, but with less well implemented (though probably with probably less parentheses).

They are all flawed and they all encourage some bad design patterns.

On the other hand, Lisp.

Whole, except for the tips.

Wait until you learn about Steller's sea cows...

Yeah. Turns out penguins have been extinct for almost two centuries, and what we've been calling penguins are a completely unrelated type of bird that just happens to look vaguely similar.

What's worse is that half the coordinates probably ended up as dates...

Funnily enough, not being able to modify a printer's firmware is what turned Richard Stallman into the free software advocate.

(Well, it was more the drop that made an already very full glass overflow, but still, “the printer story” has de facto come to be known as the point where free software started.)

It's not about DNA; it's about “crab-like” being an optimal shape for something that has to move itself in and manipulate a variety of environments.

It doesn't matter if it's an arthropod or a robot. Crab-like is almost always optimal.