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Best legal disclaimer ever.

Yeah, a lot of overlap. Not the same, but overlap. Kind of an appeal-to-authority thing there, no? Being a world-renowned puzzlist...

Hm. It would not have occurred to me to care which solution the author intended. Ideally, it's an objective puzzle. I'd be more...

Doesn't it have to do with the ability to solve a new problem it has not previously encountered by abstracting lessons from analogous...

What if we looked at "permanent" from a different angle? For example, when they start having babies. A base/colony will always trade...

But are you accounting for the fabulously expensive transport costs? Up out of one gravity well, across 50 million miles and down into...

@Julian_M YouTube videos are not valid references here. The paper you have cited does not support any of the claims you are making, and...

Well maybe I should upgrade to the paid version

Hmph. AI doesn't even know you must have two verses before the first chorus. And nobody even lost their pickup. Amateur...

This is what is happening to talent now, took 45 seconds on Suno to generate this

You have to be careful what you're comparing. The topic is ostensibly about 'what happened to talent?' but arguably, it's more 'what...

Is this another one of these threads wherein everything was better when I was young and impressionable?

How long did you spend on this puzzle?? :eek:

There's the crux, isn't it? So, the puzzle is less "can you find a solution" and more "can you find the solution I intended" It's like...

Every time I see @Andy Resnick's name, I think "is that the highly-acclaimed sci-fi novelist? No, I'm thinking of Nebula Award winner...