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Garlef | on: I Miss Terry Pratchett
True. And the article is not great anyways.

But the claim was that it "makes zero sense".

simonw | parent
Convince me that "Sir Terry Pratchett, who knew more about furniture than most" makes sense.

The fact that he used the word "furniture" in a quoted sentence from one of his books does not convince me.

Garlef | root | parent | next
I don't really want to defend the article.

My initial reading was that the author intended to imply that philisophizing about memories was a repeated thing in Pratchetts writings. Which - given my limited exposure - seemed plausible to me.

Good article? Definitely not. But I've also read similar try-hard / pseudo literary blog posts pre AI.

simonw | root | parent
That's the exact problem: you wasted mental energy thinking about whether the author was implying that Pratchett was known for philosophizing on the role or memories and their similarity to furniture, when actually it was Claude spitting out a sentence that looked like the kind of thing Pratchett might have written.

Wasting time and mental energy is why this kind of thing upsets me so much.

Cpoll | root | parent
It's more that:

1. The previous paragraph establishes a metaphor between furniture and memories. So you can take that sentence to also be metaphor, not literally about furniture.

2. A sentient animated luggage is a main character in the first two Discworld novels.

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