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🙌🏻 This is interesting. He’s got an “I told you so” badge.

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Barzun was wicked smaht

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Question: Does AI get to this point of computers thinking? Alexa and Siri are getting good at sarcasm. ChatGPT might even be dabbling in irony.

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This did cross my mind.

I hope Barzun is still right, but I'm less certain today than I was in 2001.

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From a cultural perspective, he was absolutely right.

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