Ok… but then what’s the purpose of not having three hands?

If by “western” you mean “everything west of China”, then the Shahnameh.

If you mean “European/Mediterranean”, then Homer.

If you specifically mean “western Europe”, then yeah—probably Shakespeare.

And by an LLM you mean the people who train and tune the LLM to generate the type of responses they like.

The 80s smelled like hairspray and styling gel.

“I pick the parties on their rhetoric, not their record.”

Start a website like geoguesser, where you post everything you remember and have people compete to find and save the victim.

The second law of thermodynamics.

A poem by the 19th-century radical essayist Leigh Hunt, referencing an 8th-century Bactrian Sufi mystic.

Also, be sure to fully specify the location—one time I just put “Athens” and ended up in Athens, Georgia.

The most common theories of reincarnation hold that it is punishment for misdeeds in past lives.

I don’t think we’re usually conscious of the availability of multiple narratives to the point that we can mentally simulate each one and compare their potential utility.

The choices we consciously make are the ones that arise inside of narratives, not between narratives themselves.

we will choose the one in which we profit the most

I think we’ll choose the narrative most consistent with our existing worldview, even if it hurts our own interests.

Causality, like entropy, is an emergent property that’s hard to pin down formally, but is a critical element of any narrative. I’m with you that far, but how do price tags and double breakage figure in?

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords.

Your link seems to be showing that it’s down 1.65%?

I can still remember that time.

It must have been some eight or nine hours ago now: if you tried to get a pizza delivered back then, they would just give you a message telling you to call back at 10 am when the pizzeria was open.

Don Quixote
The Princess Bride
Cold Comfort Farm

Hmm… I thought superheating referred to heating water over 100º by pressurizing it, not by heating it at normal pressure without allowing bubbles to form.

Because technically the steam is dissolved in the water above its saturation point, right? If the gas were (say) CO² instead of steam, wouldn’t “supersaturated” be the correct term?

It would only be able to heat the tea to above 100C if that point of zero nucleation remained undisturbed, and the tea held directly within it; in other words, it’s not possible.

To be clear, the liquid water flashes into steam as soon as it contacts the leaves, so technically it isn’t the supersaturated water itself heating the tea over 100º. But the steam it produces is above 100º, and that’s what heats the tea.

Water is much more likely to get supersaturated in a microwave, because water heats up in the middle of the container where there are no nucleation points. And supersaturated water heats the tea leaves above 100ºC, which can affect the flavor.