Following the success of our last game of Dialect the previous month and once again in a one-week hiatus of our usual Friday Dungeons & Dragons game, I hosted a second remote game of this strange "soft" RPG with linguistics and improv drama elements.
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This week our usual Dungeons & Dragons group took a week off while our DM recovered from a long and tiring week. As a "filler", I offered to facilitate a game of Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies, from Thorny Games, who I discovered through a Metafilter post about their latest

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I've been watching the output that people machines around the Internet have been producing using GPT-3 (and its cousins), an AI model that can produce long-form "human-like" text. Here's some things I've enjoyed recently:

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