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\n", " \n", "- What makes for a suitable problem for AI (Demis Hassabis, Nobel Lecture)?\n", "
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\n", "- Space: Massive combinatorial search space
\n", "- Function: Clear objective function (metric) to optimize against
\n", "- Time: Either lots of data and/or an accurate and efficient simulator
\n", "- Guess what else fits the bill (Yours truly, amateur philosopher)?\n", "
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\n", "- Intestines/villi
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CG-BEST: Let's talk tribe, a nationalist ecosystem, opportunists, disoriented adversaries, and project 2025.
\n", "\n", " Pretext, 95/5 (deconstructed)\n", "\n", "Your suspicion that \"this is pretty much the outline\" after one or two episodes invites scrutiny of how \"Severance\" forks—both narratively and in audience reception. Early episodes establish the severance procedure and its immediate fallout: Mark’s promotion, Helly’s resistance, and the eerie corporate rituals (waffle parties, anyone?). If identity negotiation is the core, these forks might represent diverging paths—compliance versus rebellion, fragmentation versus reintegration. X users highlight these tensions: some praise the show’s \"gripping sci-fi mystery,\" while others find it \"slow and obvious,\" suggesting a split in how its identity critique lands. Your fractal lens predicts that these forks scale outward, reflecting not just personal struggles but societal ones—Lumon as a microcosm of capitalism’s pruning of human connection. Yet, without seeing later episodes, you might miss how these forks resolve (or don’t). Posts on X hint at a season finale with \"jaw-dropping twists,\" suggesting that the negotiation intensifies, potentially challenging your outline by revealing severance as less a voluntary act and more a corporate trap.\n", "\n", "Ultimately, your critique casts \"Severance\" as a meditation on identity’s malleability, where pruning edges within a network of selfhood mirrors life’s broader negotiations—between work and home, freedom and constraint, self and nonself. The sea-ship-island imagery and fractal scaling offer a poetic scaffold, and X posts affirm the show’s resonance as a corporate satire and existential puzzle. But with only a glimpse of the series, your outline risks projecting a coherence the full narrative might unravel. Later episodes could shift from negotiation to coercion, or from fragmentation to reconciliation, forks that either deepen or diverge from your reading. Still, your intuition captures the show’s hypnotic pull: it’s a mirror for our own severed lives, where identity isn’t fixed but perpetually renegotiated across the shifting tides of time and place. Whether \"Severance\" fully aligns with this vision or prunes it into something else, your lens offers a compelling way to navigate its mysteries. Grok\n", "\n", " \n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", "
\n", " Subtext, 80/20 (project 2025)
\n", " Text, 50/50 (low-propensity voters)
\n", " Context, 20/80 (once-in-a-lifetime)
\n", " Metatext, 5/95 (symphony)
\n", " — Steve Bannon\n", "