Isn’t that the one where you put it on and go “wait hang the fuck on, that’s Tasha Yar, this isn’t just surface level, someone spent a surprising amount of effort making this lore-compliant and accurate to the characters”?
Ultimately, Star Wars is made by a lot of authors with a lot of different visions and external pressures. I’ve heard three main interpretations:
Bringing balance to the Force means destroying the Sith, because darkness is inherently evil. Vader fulfills this by killing the Emperor and becoming redeemed in his last moments, “destroying” the last Sith. (Ignore the whole fleet of off-screen Sith retroactively placed there by Expanded Universe works.)
Bringing balance to the Force means making the number of Jedi and Sith equal, and Vader fulfills this by killing hundreds of thousands of Jedi.
Bringing balance to the Force means destroying the black-and-white view of Jedi and Sith, which definitely seems to be the position of the Bendu (an ancient loosely-all-knowing alien who shows up in a handful of episodes of Clone Wars, but has been treated by the broader franchise as disproportionately important). Vader fulfills this by breaking the boundary between Sith and Jedi in his dying moments—or maybe the prophecy was about Rey after all. (Doesn’t this make the shot of Luke’s face inside Vader’s helmet the most interesting? Almost as though it’s saying both “there is evil in you, but there is good in him too.”)
Which is “right”? Well, you’d have to ask Lucas, wouldn’t you? Or Rian Johnson, or Dave Filoni, or the entire writing team of Knights of the Old Republic, or any of the thousands of people who’ve written for Star Wars… There’s not just one answer.
I think any of these could be true, from a certain point of view.
Absolutely love how much of this watch face is allocated to… telling you that it lights up. That must have been a really big deal, once upon a time. How charming!
Oh yeah, 100% true, “amount of traffic does not even remotely map to amount of actual work being done especially on such a horrifically inefficient system” was a point I meant to bring up but I sprung a leak in a blood vessel from sheer rage before I could even get there. Thank you.
They… patched it? Yeah right. This is a whole class of fundamental design problem inherent to LLMs. But don’t worry, Google claims that it’s fixed now, I’m sure they’re telling the truth and not just pumping the bubble…
Ugh, what pathetic reporting, taking him at his word—that’s not what his own numbers say! It’s not agentic traffic, it’s just all bot traffic! And what’s the number-one cause of bot traffic right now?
AI scrapers, NOT agentic traffic!
They’re taking “wow, our scrapers are destroying the internet (see Anubis, “Stop Externalizing Your Costs Directly Into My Face”, etc) and spinning it into “wow, look how powerful agentic garbage is,” while carefully hiding the actual agentic numbers so they can pump this stupid bubble even more!
This has already been happening in a terrifying number of industries. Every time you see some absurd “pet cookie delivery” service that seems insane, it’s because the only viable business model that remains is pledging fealty to the wealthy.
The article describes this too: healthy people balk at the high premiums, drop their insurance, the pool of people on insurance becomes proportionally more sick people who can’t risk dropping coverage, the insurance companies realize they’ll have to pay out more per person, premiums go up.
I mean, your job might be screwing you over regardless, but there are other explanations.
A reference document from a Mac OS 8.6 computer in the 2000’s. It contains the pinout of every Mega Man Battle Network battle chip toy—a small and mostly useless piece of information, but definitely hard to find anywhere else, so I made sure to keep it.
Utterly incomprehensible, have a nice day.
Isn’t that the one where you put it on and go “wait hang the fuck on, that’s Tasha Yar, this isn’t just surface level, someone spent a surprising amount of effort making this lore-compliant and accurate to the characters”?
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Ultimately, Star Wars is made by a lot of authors with a lot of different visions and external pressures. I’ve heard three main interpretations:
Which is “right”? Well, you’d have to ask Lucas, wouldn’t you? Or Rian Johnson, or Dave Filoni, or the entire writing team of Knights of the Old Republic, or any of the thousands of people who’ve written for Star Wars… There’s not just one answer.
I think any of these could be true, from a certain point of view.
Cute! Love the presentation. Fun little game.
Absolutely love how much of this watch face is allocated to… telling you that it lights up. That must have been a really big deal, once upon a time. How charming!
Oh shit. I hope everyone makes it out okay…
Oh yeah, 100% true, “amount of traffic does not even remotely map to amount of actual work being done especially on such a horrifically inefficient system” was a point I meant to bring up but I sprung a leak in a blood vessel from sheer rage before I could even get there. Thank you.
They… patched it? Yeah right. This is a whole class of fundamental design problem inherent to LLMs. But don’t worry, Google claims that it’s fixed now, I’m sure they’re telling the truth and not just pumping the bubble…
Ugh, what pathetic reporting, taking him at his word—that’s not what his own numbers say! It’s not agentic traffic, it’s just all bot traffic! And what’s the number-one cause of bot traffic right now?
AI scrapers, NOT agentic traffic!
They’re taking “wow, our scrapers are destroying the internet (see Anubis, “Stop Externalizing Your Costs Directly Into My Face”, etc) and spinning it into “wow, look how powerful agentic garbage is,” while carefully hiding the actual agentic numbers so they can pump this stupid bubble even more!
Lies, lies, lies, it’s all lies all the way down…
“Time to move upmarket!”
This has already been happening in a terrifying number of industries. Every time you see some absurd “pet cookie delivery” service that seems insane, it’s because the only viable business model that remains is pledging fealty to the wealthy.
Wow, what an entertaining read!
True, but my compiler isn’t demanding a $200/month subscription from me.
What an excellent interview! Thank you for posting it!
…which seems like a much better way to generate summaries, honestly. Pull in human-written ones, and expand the simple version as necessary.
And here I thought I was just being weirdly picky about this!
…Well, I mean, it’s still probably weirdly picky, but now I’m part of a tradition of being weirdly picky about it!
The article describes this too: healthy people balk at the high premiums, drop their insurance, the pool of people on insurance becomes proportionally more sick people who can’t risk dropping coverage, the insurance companies realize they’ll have to pay out more per person, premiums go up.
I mean, your job might be screwing you over regardless, but there are other explanations.
Extremely well written.
A reference document from a Mac OS 8.6 computer in the 2000’s. It contains the pinout of every Mega Man Battle Network battle chip toy—a small and mostly useless piece of information, but definitely hard to find anywhere else, so I made sure to keep it.
Those are, in fact, perfectly sensible guidelines.