Lou Ciccone@rationaldoge I have been re-reading this. Yesterday's gut punch: “They could not alter your feelings; for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.”
@rationaldoge Less depressingly (perhaps), I did enjoy Orwell’s potential anticipation of an LLM: “The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.”