{"id":149303,"date":"2025-09-03T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/?p=149303"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:13:05","slug":"en-passant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/09\/en-passant\/","title":{"rendered":"God & Devil Debate HI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are many levels to the excellent Scott Alexander satire of God, Iblis (Islamic word for devil), and Dwarkesh Patel, one of the best new podcasters of this era<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are people who have gone their whole lives without realizing that Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and the ABC Song are all the same tune […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they\u2019re used to stories about surgeons getting completed with the string \u201cman\u201d, then that\u2019s the direction their thoughts will always go\u2026 Also, how come God can\u2019t make humans speak normally? Everything they say is full of these um dashes!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Which leads to a hat tip to Brian Gardner<\/a> on the incredible McSweeney’s Em dash responding to the the AI allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So next time you read something and think, \u201cAI wrote this\u2014it has a lot of em dashes,\u201d ask yourself: Is it AI? Or is it just a poet trying to give you vertigo in four lines or fewer?
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There are many levels to the excellent Scott Alexander satire of God, Iblis (Islamic word for devil), and Dwarkesh Patel, one of the best new podcasters of this era. There are people who have gone their whole lives without realizing that Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and the ABC Song are all … Continue reading God & Devil Debate HI<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"fullscreen","default_image_id":54207,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbWEudHRcL2ZpbGVzXC8yMDIxXC8wNVwvUGhvdG8tb24tMjAyMC0xMC0yOC1hdC0yLjA1LVBNLTEtMTAyNHg2ODIuanBnIiwidHh0IjoiR29kICZhbXA7IERldmlsIERlYmF0ZSBISSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZnVsbHNjcmVlbiIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxMDQ3ODY1fQ.9uzrW3YOUACUSxSWE-5PIH0xXPdb4B5qT01tu1x-OKQMQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[2817],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-ai","post_format-post-format-quote"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/09\/en-passant\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"God & Devil Debate HI","url":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/09\/en-passant\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/09\/en-passant\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"AI","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt"}],"creator":["Matt"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Matt Mullenweg","logo":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/files\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-2020-10-28-at-2.05-PM-1.jpg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2025-09-03T23:04:11Z","datePublished":"2025-09-03T23:04:11Z","dateModified":"2025-09-03T23:13:05Z"},"rendered":"