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Mar 26Liked by Steve Stewart-Williams

On a whim, I used my Gen AI toolkit to write a refutation of Gender in the style of Judith Butler last Sunday, (it wrote as Judith Butler and an array of other writers in 9 languages). The one written by plucky Nancy Drew was nicely done, and actually had some nicely readable sections on sex-based differences between ‘boys and girls’ you might enjoy.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l64vkkcs9q1z3hzt5tyi1/ButlerDrew_112233full.pdf?rlkey=d1k8968emvlmvkhw9i6s1hm61&dl=0

And the original pseudo-Butler

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5vwtrgnc06kipela6muug/Butler_112233full.pdf?rlkey=39zh8v4p2dsluni0xznlt1k8j&dl=0

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I had a skim through both books, and I'm still just amazed that AI can do stuff like this.

I'm not sure I'd be able to distinguish pseudo Judith Butler from the real Judith Butler, tbh.

I did a keyword search on "evolution" and found this great passage in the Butler x Nancy Drew book: "'Look here,’ whispers a librarian to a trusted reader, pointing towards a dusty shelf stocked with books on biology and evolution. ‘This is where you’ll find answers that some don’t want you to hear.'"

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Mar 27Liked by Steve Stewart-Williams

Nancy is so plucky and earnest. It is also a random _version_ of Nancy, you can dial up or down the intensity and complexity. The book is completely typeset easy to print.

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Freak’n amazing.

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