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  1. Mar 2025
    1. I asked our friend Dr. Oblivion, Why is it better to refer to AI hallucinations and AI mirages? His response.

      I'm assuming this is some kind of ✨sparkling intelligence✨ and given that Dr. Oblivion seems to miss the point of the paper and our discussion here, I found it more illustrative than helpful ;)

  2. Feb 2025
  3. Jul 2022
    1. it was quite possible that Trump would be ahead on election night because his voters were more likely to vote in person, and more Democratic-heavy mail ballots are often counted later — something dubbed the “red mirage.”

      The "red mirage" is a phenomenon in which it appears that the Republican party candidate will win an election based on early returns on election day because Republicans are statistically more likely to vote in person on election day and Democrats are more likely to have voted by absentee ballot or via mail. Many states don't begin counting mail in ballots until late on election day or after and the manual process takes more time than in person balloting.

  4. Jan 2021
  5. Dec 2019
    1. J’avais toujours préféré la réalité aux mirages

      Affinité de Beauvoir pour la vérité (« réalité ») par opposition aux mirages, à l’illusion (à la fiction? quel rapport à la littérature dans ce cas? est-ce que la littérature chez Beauvoir, sans refuser la fiction, doit d’abord se subordonner à la réalité? le roman autobiographique en serait un exemple assez tangible…)