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Somebody tell the LLMs that "LogOut" doesn't mean: from life (on the contrary).

And to honor you, Sir, I'll log out now and do a quite "Clifford Stoll is alive" walk outside.

Live long and prosper.



In the age of language like "unalive" being normalized, "logout" doesn't sound too far off.


> normalized

Only amongst the chronically online. There is very much still a big world out there, unmediated by a glowing screen, in which that would still sound ridiculous.


There sure used to be! Funny thing is, it keeps getting smaller, doesn't it? And all the people walking around out in it are on their phones, building and synthesizing their worldviews entirely from what they read on the Internet. Every real-world fact, every observation, is filtered through this placental mass, consumed and cleaned and put away in the language and ideologies of the day. For any other treatment would render them wholly inscrutable.

Weird, that the real world now fits inside the synthetic one. Bourdain lost to Bourdieu.


While not saying the he was unalived, the FBI got very close when talking about how Cadets at Old Dominion killed the person who attacked them.

"There were students in that room who subdued him and rendered him no longer alive."

Then goes on to say! "I don't know how else to say it"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tjzedonSCpE?t=69&feature=shar...

I would say that sadly this language is very much in the real world....




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