My Problem with the Robert Langdon Series

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Double standards

TIL Dr. Doctor Bliss assumed control of President Garfield's medical care after he was shot in the back. Doctor Bliss mislocated the location of the bullet, and proceeded to medically torture Garfield for months while trying to remove it. He was referred by Abraham Lincoln's son, who witnessed it.

TIL about ELIZA, a 1960s chatbot created by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum that simulated a psychotherapist. It was so convincing that some users, including Weizenbaum's secretary, became emotionally attached to it. In 2023, ELIZA even outperformed GPT-3.5 in a Turing test study.

Burning champ at Highlight NYE

Always them.