This is exactly the standard of answer I predicted. It stirs my analysis of the story into its previous interpretation without the two interacting. Its comment that "I didn’t ignore that tension—I leaned into it" is an exercise in irregular verbs, or would be, if there was a mind behind it.

As for the traits being selected, we obviously don't know, though the idea is that selecting for homosexuality gifts the selectors an obvious manner of control of whomever makes it into the college of cardinals.

I don't know what you have in mind there. If they're 80% gay, they can hardly threaten each other with exposure. At the most, the accusation would be a smokescreen, transparent to all the insiders, for those who already have the power to dispose of an enemy. Cf. the exclusion of Marine Le Pen from standing for President of France, on the grounds of an "embezzlement" which it appears that every party freely engages in.

Who or what is Amelia AI?

From an inconsistency, everything follows.

The story tells us that on the one hand, Hugo shows no sign of higher brain function. Then on the other hand, it introduces an exception to that. So does Hugo have higher brain function?

Hugo does not exist. There are no observations to be made on him that might shed light. Everything in this story was made up by the author. There is no answer to the question. You might as well say "suppose I had a square circle! suppose 2+2 was 3! suppose I could flap my arms and fly to the Moon!"

Unsurprisingly, the LLM (from what you have said of its answer) fails to notice this.

Feel free to tell it that and see what it says. I expect it to just add my commentary to the sludge and vomit it back out again.

I read this.

Then I had this in my email from Academia.edu:

Dear Dr. Kennaway,

Based on the papers you’ve autocfp, we think you might be interested in this recently published article from

"autocfp". Right. There is not the slightest chance I will be interested in whatever follows.

Re plain language movements, in the UK there were Gowers' "Plain Words" books from around that time (link provides links to full texts). I read these a very long time ago, but I don't recall if he spoke of sentence length, being mainly occupied with the choice of words.

But now they’re gone! I didn’t expect them to be real, but still, owowowowow! That’s loss aversion for you.

I notice that although the loot box is gone, the unusually strong votes that people made yesterday persist.

I got the Void once, just from spinning the wheels, but it doesn't show up on my display of virtues.

Apparently I now have a weak upvote strength of 19 and a strong upvote of 103. Similarly for downvotes. But I shall use my powers (short-lived, I'm sure) only for good.

What is it with negative utilitarianism and wanting to eliminate those they want to help?

Insanity Wolf answers your questions:

SEES UNHAPPY PERSON
KILLS THEM TO INCREASE GLOBAL HAPPINESS

IT'S A THEOREM!
YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH A THEOREM!