funhouse
(originally, US) A structure, usually at a circus or amusement park, enclosing several interactive attractions such as distorting mirrors, ramps, slides, stairs, rotating barrel slides, etc., that usu
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LLM chatbots are not conscious, or even reasoning. Claude (et al) is a funhouse mirror. It reflects what you show it back at you, contorted and exaggerated, so that you keep looking at it.
Garlemald is like 5 different places tbh, I feel like it’s even got shades of Japan, and American cities, in its design as seen in the new dungeon and the areas we’ve seen previously. It was designed to be familiar to…
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(originally, US) A structure, usually at a circus or amusement park, enclosing several interactive attractions such as distorting mirrors, ramps, slides, stairs, rotating barrel slides, etc., that usually do not involve performers.
“It’s not good stewardship. If the guests wanted to walk through a funhouse with guys jumping out of the shadows saying ‘booga-booga,’ they’d go to one of the Halloween Houses in their hometowns. The Mansion’s better than that. I can’t b…
“LLM chatbots are not conscious, or even reasoning. Claude (et al) is a funhouse mirror. It reflects what you show it back at you, contorted and exaggerated, so that you keep looking at it.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Garlemald is like 5 different places tbh, I feel like it’s even got shades of Japan, and American cities, in its design as seen in the new dungeon and the areas we’ve seen previously. It was designed to be familiar to the player, evoking a weird funhouse mirror effect”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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