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From: solar penguin <solar.penguin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: S2.5 - THE STORY AND THE ENGINE
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 22:00:56 -0000 (UTC)
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The True loon locked himself into losing as usual:

> On 10/05/2025 21:56, solar imbecile wrote:
>> 
>> The True Doctor wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/05/2025 20:16, solar imbecile wrote:
>> 
>>>> The True Doctor wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> It's most likely that the DEI hire that wrote this episode wanted to use
>>>>> it to spread his racist agenda, failing to mention that Gatwa's own
>>>>> ancestors mutilated and murdered each other in Rwanda despite all of
>>>>> them being black,
>>>> 
>>>> Why would they mention the _actor’s_ ancestors?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Because the entire episode was about Gatwa being black,
>> 
>> No. 
> 
> Yes it was.
> 
>> The episode was an allegory about how AI is transforming the
>> creative arts. The business about the Doctor being black was
> 
> It had nothing to do with AI. Did you not see Gatwa's lecture at the 
> start about him not feeling accepted in white countries because of his 
> skin colour, or did you not understand it?

And if that had been all there was to the episode, you might have
a point.

However, there were also other things going on in the episode. Things
that had nothing to do with the lead actor’s skin.

There was a character called the Barber. He used to be a
story teller. He told stories the old fashioned way for thousands
of years. Just like people have been creating stories and art
the old fashioned way for thousands of years.

Then he created the nexus web and the story engine to artificially
combine and reassemble stories for him to make his job easier.
Just like AI bots trawl the web for data and recombine it in
new ways. (The Barber even literally refers to the nexus as the
World Wide Web at one point; this isn’t exactly subtle!)

Eventually the story engine means the old storyteller was no
longer needed. Just as some people are worried that AI will
put creative artists out of work.

He wants to destroy it, but it’s too late. Instead he’ll just have
to learn to live with it. Just as… well, you get the idea.

Did you really miss all that because you were busy obsessing over
the colour of one man’s skin?

>> 
>> You did notice that the villain in this story was black, didn’t you?
>> 
> 
> Like I said, the story was all about being black.
> 

Make up your mind! First you said it was all about Gatwa being
black. Now it’s apparently about someone else being black. Which
is it?

-- 
solar penguin