[FRIAM] The comparative thickness of the tropospheree

Tue Apr 29 20:09:16 EDT 2025

Hi Steve,

Toward the end of Glen’s post, he was commenting on how the LLMs that he (the post’s narrator) thought were participating in a scenario of his design end up displacing him by being the actual dictators of the scenario, and replace him not only as designer but as participant entirely.  So he goes to live under a bridge like the characters Suttree visits.

Marcus’s clip about the prompts at the bottom of GTP’s Svejk-like service were in a similar spirit, +/- how close any of these resonances is to a particular story like AIE.

Eric

> On Apr 30, 2025, at 8:11, steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
> 
> Eric -
> 
> I have read Roanhorse's post-Apocalyptic Trail of Lightning... and tripped over the controversy over the subtle/complicated claims of Tribal identity and cultural appropriation.  I didn't read more of her work because after this novel she veered further into *fantasy* which is not my genre-of-choice so much.   The description of this short  story (very highly heralded) would seem to suggest significant irony regarding the criticism she drew for her subsequent novel?  
> 
> For the PostModernists (or adjacent) among us, I wonder if this whole tangle isn't very PoMo with her simultaneous inhabitation and critique of systems of representation?  Did Marcus response go full PoMo as well?  
> 
> All this aside, can you elaborate the relevance of why you injected this into this thread at this point?   Stylistic similarity to Glen's allegorical character study of obnoxious little green men as LLM? (or vice-versa?).   The little green men, very superficially reminded me of Spielberg's Gremlins?
> 
> - Steve
> 
> On 4/29/25 2:41 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> Keeping with superdeterminism, I like am pleased to see suggested questions at the bottom of George.  
>> When it truly has omniscience, I will be able to simply click on the suggested question and I will be unnecessary.  
>>  
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>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The comparative thickness of the tropospheree
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>> Written in 2017?
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>> On Apr 29, 2025, at 22:04, glen <gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> More like if little green creatures came into my kitchen to cook up some stinky fish ... and then leave the kitchen all messy for me to clean up ... the whole house stinking of fish for days ... until they show up again just when it stopped stinking. And as time goes on, they're going to show up more often ... not merely to stink up the house with fish, but to re-landscape the yard, paint the house ugly colors, paint garish murals on all the inside walls, swap out my truck for a "truck" from Elno, and replace the beer in my fridge with fscking *seltzer*.
>> 
>> And they'll eventually get on my keyboard and start doing "work" for my clients ... work the clients didn't ask for and don't want ... until they convince them they do want it ... then the little green creatures will evict me and I'll go live under a bridge.
>> 
>> On 4/28/25 10:14 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
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>> I know.  If small green bipedal creatures landed on earth and started tending to yardwork would that also be a disappointment?
>> They’ve failed to trim my tall hedge, so curse them!
>> *From:*Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>> *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Thompson
>> *Sent:* Monday, April 28, 2025 9:44 AM
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>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The comparative thickness of the tropospheree
>> Hi  Marcus,
>> I find that George's indulgence with bad metaphor very useful.
>> I  also find amazing his ability to grasp the gist of what I am asking.  I have essential tremor and a bad keyboard and still George almost always gets the message.  Siri will take any opportunity to misunderstand.
>> In this case, it was I, not George, who was cranking out the sloppy metaphors, trying to find a way to convey just how thin the atmosphere is.  I was hoping Saran wrap thin, but that appears to be an order of magnitude too far.
>> Am I reading this wrong? people often talk about LLM's as if they are /disappointed/ in them, as if there is something they SHOULD do that they aren't doing.  Do you have any idea what the disappointment might be?: What is the world hankering for that they don't provide?
>> Nick
>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com%20%3cmailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>>> wrote:
>>    I wonder if the George makers 1) realized that people have an affinity to iffy analogies and they should give the people what they want, or 2) the LLM was prone to generating them so they just made it a feature?
>>    *From:*Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com%20%3cmailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>>> *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Thompson
>>    *Sent:* Sunday, April 27, 2025 8:12 PM
>>    *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com%20%3cmailto:friam at redfish.com>>>
>>    *Subject:* [FRIAM] The comparative thickness of the tropospheree
>>    George and I were looking for intuition pumps to help a reader imagine how very thin the troposphere is.   Here is what we came up with:
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