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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by jahewson on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:31AM (#36114909)
> Now they look more like prophets.

Not to me. They just look like another group claiming grand and sweeping theories of truth.

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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by notjulianjaynes on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:49AM (#36115068)
That's somewhat ironic since "postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourse characterized by skepticism toward the 'grand narratives' of modernism."[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

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Re:India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arr... by tsss on Monday May 29, 2023 @01:16PM (#36115878)
Postmodernism is ironic exactly because it is such a "grand narrative" that it is supposedly trying to avoid.
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