When you say “by themselves”, you mean one person would still write the scripts manually, and AI would replace the grunt-work animation teams that shows like the Simpsons and South Park employ in East Asia?

If the AT protocol allows public access to content, they can’t create a proprietary training set. But the content is available for anyone who want to add it to a public training set.

We can have AI control our metaverse avatars so we can ignore them both.

There was a last major migration out of Africa starting around 70–50,000 years ago that coincides with both the disappearance of Neanderthals and Denisovans, and with the appearance of representational art. Earlier Neanderthals made artistic crafts like shell jewelry, but it wasn’t representational.

Are you talking about someone who’s deliberately claiming to have experienced something they only read about, or someone who’s genuinely uncertain of their own memories?

Legally, yes. (But of course, the Supreme Court has turned interpreting the Constitution into a game of Calvinball.)

I don’t know, but there are some common names that are actually obscure forms of classic theonyms, and the people using them may not even be aware of the connection—for instance, “Dennis” is a form of “Dionysus”. Would you count that or not?

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Lapsang Souchong (smoked black tea).

Logically, yeah—it went from “all X are Y” to “no non-X are Y” (or equivalently, “all Y are X”).

Interesting approach—to detect fake news by simulating humans’ reaction to it rather than judging the content itself.

Has Trump declared victory yet?

As opposed to the last four years of being afraid of all the things the president was failing to do.

As many others are pointing out, cultural hegemony plays a major role—but I think there’s another factor at play as well:

Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology have been dead and fossilized for a thousand years and more, and in the meantime a long tradition grew up of mining them for allegory, with their prior religious significance stripped away. Most other world mythologies, on the other hand, still form part of active belief systems, or recently died out under colonial occupation and so carry postcolonial political overtones. So borrowing from them could be more problematical, whereas classical mythology has basically been left up for grabs by its former adherents.

The classical Romanization was more accurate in its time—the issue is that the common pronunciation of classical Latin changed after the classical era (for instance, the “c” became soft in many contexts, instead of always being pronounced as “k” as it was in classical Latin).

If you use the original classical pronunciation for Latin, you’ll also pronounce the classical romanized Greek names correctly—and if you spell them the classical way you’ll recognize them more easily in Latin sources. The modernized romanization is most useful if you’re only interested in Greece and not in the classical world as an integrated whole.

Utnapishtim.

Someone needs to invent a waterproof suction-mounted device dedicated to recording actual shower thoughts.

Ukraine should offer the North Koreans political asylum if they defect.

According to quantum field theory particles are just fluctuations in fields that permeate all of space, so sure.

Yeah, that’s why we need at least… two of them.