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Jimmy's avatar

Trust the bird. He can talk… can you fly?

Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

A parrot for prevarication and a mockingbird for mendacity.

la chevalerie vit's avatar

Throw the tv and computers out to save on electricity. Nice. Warm cheese tastes good too.

Mark Alexander's avatar

Not sure if that is a money-saving strategy (feed, vet bills), but it's certainly way better than TV in every other respect.

Domenic C. Scarcella's avatar

Does the parrot also hallucinate "facts," like its human and digitized counterparts?

Rat's avatar

I believe pretty much everyone has been able to do that since ~1290 AD when Raimundus Lullus invented the method of joining together two random parts of unrelated statements.

Humans likely hallucinated even before that, but for the last ~700 years they’ve been able to do so on a sound theoretical basis :)

Domenic C. Scarcella's avatar

I'd never heard of Raimundus Lullus until now. I hope he's not a hallucination!

Rat's avatar

He’s one of the contenders for the fame of «inventor of the first mechanical computer»; Just that his technical arsenal was mostly limited to paper and scissors. That’s why he only invented a Small Language Model… :)