Artificial paranoia

[jody2.718]

Michael Bailey:

Wait - in a former mayonnaise factory?

(“How much do you know of La Mayonnaise?” she inquired. He shrugged. “Maybe
up to the part that goes ‘Aux armes, citoyens’—” But she was frowning,
earnest as he had seldom seen her. “La Mayonnaise,” Pléiade explained, “has
its origins in the moral squalor of the court of Louis XV—here in Belgium
the affinity should not be too surprising. The courts of Leopold and Louis
are not that different except in time, and what is time? Both monumentally
deluded men, maintaining their power through oppression of ….” etc)

Louis XV, Leopold, Open AI/Altman
Moral squalor - check
Monumental delusion - check
Mayonnaise - check
Moral equivalency - check

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Yeah. I was actually hoping that the Times reporters, or at least one of them involved in the story, hadn't used a Generative Pre-trained Transformer to include that completely unnecessary fact in the article. In which case it would be easy to make the paranoid leap and conclude that the algorithm had sucked up all of Pynchon and made the connection you just did. Why else waste (no pun not intended) precious copy "real estate" by including that paragraph about the Mayo factory? And the paranoia, like a whirlpool- or water spout if you prefer- kept feeding on itself in a positive feedback looooop, leading to the conclusion that one of the copy Katz at the times, who might be monitoring the P-List, was sending an in joke- or pointed elbow to the ribs- to see if it anyone here was digging it.

I was just allowing that paranoid scenario to blossom and playing along, as if to acknowledge that someone from The Times was actually listening.

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