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  1. Futurism: Marc Andreessen Mocked for Accidentally Revealing That He Seems to Have a Deep Misunderstanding of How AI Actually Works. “‘You are a world class expert in all domains,’ his unusually flattering prompt reads. ‘Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world.’ His gushing and unusually […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/07/futurism-marc-andreessen-mocked-for-accidentally-revealing-that-he-seems-to-have-a-deep-misunderstanding-of-how-ai-actually-works/
  2. A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

    The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
     
    [Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]

    Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
    Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…

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