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She spoke softly to no one, "Like chiseled spam." Crowsfeet wrinkled deeply as a wistful smile spread across her face.
by colinwilyb 3y ago
She spoke softly to no one,
"Like chiseled spam."
Crowsfeet wrinkled deeply as a wistful smile spread across her face.
- olddustytrail 3y agoThe effervescence of being is not to be taken lightly. Perhaps you should reconsider.
- all2 3y agoThis is poetic. Is it generated with GPT? Or did you write that? Kudos if you wrote that.
- falsedang 3y ago[flagged]
- cl42 3y agoGenerated by Neal Stephenson, I believe. :)
- art-not 3y agoDo you happen to know what book/story?
- cl42 3y agoI believe it's from Snow Crash. You'll notice the original commenter's nickname is 'hprotagonist' and Snow Crash's main character is Hiro Protagonist, too. It's really the perfect comment/thread. :)
- angch 3y agoIt's from Diamond Age, alluding to a character (YT) that was from Snow Crash.
- cl42 3y agoThanks for correcting me! That reference is even cooler than I expected.
- gibspaulding 3y agoHas ChatGPT so thoroughly defeated https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/ that we are now suspicious of constructive comments? What a world...
- pmarreck 3y agoHer eyes seemed to scan an unseen horizon as if daring it to contest her words. They had seen decades come and go, fads morph into nostalgia, and the trivial be elevated to the profound. The room around her—a hodgepodge of vinyl records, old movie posters, and furniture that screamed “thrift store chic”—only added to the ambiance of cultured decay. It was as if she and the room were in a symbiotic relationship, both worn but defiant, aesthetically disheveled but fundamentally strong. “Ah, life,” she mused to herself, “where the mundane and the magnificent dance in the gray area of absurdity.” And with that, she took a sip of her overpriced, artisanal gin, as if toasting to the glorious contradiction that is existence.
- all2 3y agoI think I have some books to read. I haven't laid hold of truly good sci-fi in a long time.
- pmarreck 3y agoThe text I posted was 100% AI-generated (GPT4) when asked to continue the previous text
- gcr 3y agoWhat is this from? If this thread from the top-level comment is full of references, I’m not getting it.
- pmarreck 3y agoIt is entirely generated with GPT-4, given the original parent text and asked to continue it in the same style.