{"id":22915,"date":"2025-06-04T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22915"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:21:20","slug":"a-surrealist-design-engine-no-one-asked-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/04\/a-surrealist-design-engine-no-one-asked-for\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A surrealist design engine no one asked for&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back, Sam Harris &amp; Ricky Gervais <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samharris.org\/podcasts\/making-sense-episodes\/235-call-ricky\">discussed<\/a> the impossibility of translating a joke discovered during a dream (&#8220;What noise does a monster make?&#8221;) back into our consensus waking reality. Like&#8230; <em>what?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get the same vibes watching ChatGPT try to dredge up some model of me and of&#8230; humor?&#8230; in creating a comic strip based on our interactions. I find it uncanny, inscrutable, and yet consequently charming all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Hey ChatGPT, based on what you know about me, please create a four-panel comic you think I&#8217;d like&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U7WRfShGRh\">https:\/\/t.co\/U7WRfShGRh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/1930080854111560034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, Sam Harris &amp; Ricky Gervais discussed the impossibility of translating a joke discovered during a dream (&#8220;What noise does a monster make?&#8221;) back into our consensus waking reality. Like&#8230; what? I get the same vibes watching ChatGPT try to dredge up some model of me and of&#8230; humor?&#8230; in creating a comic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22916,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22915\/revisions\/22916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}