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Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books: "I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that." "I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that." "To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff." Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?


Modders put GTA San Andreas into Pro Evolution Soccer and it’s absolutely hilarious 💀⚽



For example, we gave Claude an impossible programming task. It kept trying and failing; with each attempt, the “desperate” vector activated more strongly. This led it to cheat the task with a hacky solution that passes the tests but violates the spirit of the assignment.




Related I love Brazil but it does an absolutely terrible job marketing itself to the world All foreigners know about Brazil is favelas, carnaval and football, that's what I knew before too as a European coming here in the last 3 years The reality is completely different My friend visiting now "my dream is to visit the favela in Rio" I have to explain that no the wish of Brazilians is not to visit a favela There's much more beautiful things in Brazil than people robbing and murdering innocent people on the street every day (But I do like baile funk)










