Someone said that: "LLMs cannot write Barbie, they cannot write Oppenheimer". This is, of course, true.
The choice of those two specific movies places them within the blast radius of LLMs, which came to prominence at roughly the same time. And that's cute -- but wait, there's more. 1/
Oppenheimer's work ushered in a world which is *visible* in a scientific sense. We can see the pre-nuclear world, and the post in the record.
The Manhattan Project literally changed the world.
While its children may be stranger, and more goblinoid than the grimdark that the Cold War suggested, we still live in the shadow of Hirosima & (to a much less extent) Trinity. 2/
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