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Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by tempodox » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC

falcor84 wrote: post #18

tempodox wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI, Justin Bieber is not a girl.

I see you italicized Bieber , this is surely not a coincidence, because nothing is ever a coincidence.

Because GP misspelled the name as “Beiber”.

Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by dooglius » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:09 PM UTC

saaaaaam wrote: post #2

I’m really not sure what I just read. I mean, I know what I read in terms of the words - but I don’t understand what its purpose is. But I don’t necessarily think it matters… It was thoroughly diverting, held my attention and made me wish that more people wrote pieces like this where the only real purpose is the conceit, and the subsequent journey the author takes you on.

Not everything needs to have a purpose. The most likely explanation to me is just that inspiration happened to strike the author as he heard the song.

Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by 4ggr0 » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:33 PM UTC

tempodox wrote: post #21

falcor84 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see you italicized Bieber , this is surely not a coincidence, because nothing is ever a coincidence.

Because GP misspelled the name as “Beiber”.

That's exactly the kind of thing they'd want you to believe!!

Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by mmillin » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

Reading this felt very similar to watching “Pitch Perfect 237” (Anna Kendrick 9/11 conspiracy) https://youtube.com/watch?v=MiC9X_MoE1M

Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by layer8 » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:36 PM UTC

It’s sad that LLMs seem unable to produce that kind of brilliant deductive reasoning.

Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by wy35 » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:42 PM UTC

This is hilarious, I need to find more blog posts like this.

Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:54 PM UTC

willvarfar wrote: post #20

So I just had a fun 5 minutes trying to talk gemini around to believing that Shawn has a position on the Kuril Islands dispute by submitting all the evidence in the article, but the llm is pretty impressively consistent and insistent that the song is figurative etc. Miss the days when it was so easy to get an LLM to argue for anything by persistence.

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Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by speed_spread » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:55 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #25

It’s sad that LLMs seem unable to produce that kind of brilliant deductive reasoning.

I disagree. It'll be sad the day they can do so. This kind of brilliant but absurd joke is still a refuge from the AI slop onslaught.

Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by stavros » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:55 PM UTC

saaaaaam wrote: post #2

I’m really not sure what I just read. I mean, I know what I read in terms of the words - but I don’t understand what its purpose is. But I don’t necessarily think it matters… It was thoroughly diverting, held my attention and made me wish that more people wrote pieces like this where the only real purpose is the conceit, and the subsequent journey the author takes you on.

I think this is one of those things that either has intrinsic purpose for you, or it doesn't. As for me, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about this analysis of Shawn Mendes' cryptic lyric.

Re: Finding Shawn Mendes (2019)

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Post by stavros » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 1:56 PM UTC

CommenterPerson wrote: post #17

I'm patting myself on the back. After reading the first couple paragraphs, I went Eh? and came here to the comments. Thanks everyone for saving me the time.

Saving you the time of reading a fantastic article? I think not.