2026-09-24 20:50 UTC
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm going to steal an reply from a friend to this https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/surprise/#wowsignal
"But in order to _be_ surprised, you also have to understand what's "normal". If you don't know chemistry, you might be surprised when the indicator solution turns blue as you add baking soda. And, at some point in the past, someone was indeed surprised by this.
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@leberschnitzel@existiert.ch 2026-09-24 20:50
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place "One of the surprises about how statistically predictable human behavior is, is that there's actually fewer surprises than we expect. But like Arthur C. Clarke said, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and we have a few million people armed with LLMs who now think they're fucking Houdini." 2/2