Ted Chiang is often regarded as the best sci-fi author of our times.

Indulgence might be the most appropriate term.

The US Constitution wasn't written with the wellbeing of random ordinary citizens in mind. You could argue it was the exact opposite in fact.

Have you ever distributed vengeance so you can personally speak how you felt? Or are you mindlessly repeating strings of words that are supposed to go together like an LLM?

A while ago I saw a photo of Nancy Pelosi on the Congress floor with a walker. I later learned the picture was deepfaked. But in a way it was more true than a real photograph.