The internet isn't magic, if you send data to business X that is under jurisdiction of country Z, it's judicial system can get it by court order.
This always has been like this, you are in HN, did you think E2EE was just a LARP? It's not even like this is some Patriot Act gag-order bullshit, if you could claim an exception for privacy for any user data, 99% of companies would be immune to discovery.
So no, the spooks are not gonna look at your deepest secrets that you put in CleverBot 9000, but giving your data to Sam "Give me your eyes for 20 bucks" Altman was stupid. Yes, if you are capable of reaching this site it's your *fault*, you should know better.
The idea is... okay, but it's way too long so the joke gets old and starts sounding kinda fucked up. When a kid does the "buy me a PS5" powerpoint on his own it's cute, this looks more like MLM training.
Eh, I think there's a difference that make both terms useful. Fiction set strictly in the real world with mysterious yet mundane magical/supernatural elements, versus fiction in a fantastical world or a "real world" where the existence of magic™ must be extensively explained.
I think the whole "all fantasy/sci-fi is slop" wasn't that big of a thing in LATAM, so the term isn't some euphemism for making it palatable to elitists.
I also disagree with GP, a lot of what makes One Hundred Years of Solitude good comes from the Colombian setting and it's cultural context. True, it wouldn't be impossible to translate that to a alien planet, Mars isn't fully Mars The Martian Chronicles after all.
> versus fiction in a fantastical world or a "real world" where the existence of magic™ must be extensively explained.
Well now if we're drifting, I don't consider "fantasy" has to explain everything like it were an AD&D manual.
Take Glen Cook's Black Company series where magic just happens without explanation. Compare with something like Brandon Sanderson who describes "magic systems" in great detail always. I find the former enticing and the latter boring.
> Lord of the Rings didn't explain anything either.
Yeah, and LOTR is in Middle-Earth, a fantastical world that isn't Earth. The point of the term "magical realism" is that there is still "realism". It's about what happens when something impossible or absurd happens to you and you have to deal with the ramifications in the real world. No one would read The Satanic Verses, think about the themes involved and compare it to LOTR.
Sorry, I meant that fantasy usually is in a unrelated-to-our-own fantastical world or it's in the real world (e.g urban fantasy), but the fact that magic exists and the reader "didn't know" about it must be explained (e.g Harry Potter, Dresden Files).
What's the alternative to not explaining here? Is it making the magic subtle/weak/uncommon enough that the answer is "you didn't notice, and this is plausible to claim"? If the magic is blatant enough and there's no explanation, the story becomes even less attached to reality than "there's a lot of magic but it's deliberately kept hidden".
If it wasn't suicide and I was the big boss, I would get some nuclear subs for my irrelevant South American nation ASAP. The "rules based order" is just wet toilet paper, who's to say that in 50 years we or our neighbors aren't next?
Gringos have always been crazy, but now y'all are getting extra spicy. Qaddafi, Ukraine and now Iran. Get nukes or bust is the name of the game now.
This always has been like this, you are in HN, did you think E2EE was just a LARP? It's not even like this is some Patriot Act gag-order bullshit, if you could claim an exception for privacy for any user data, 99% of companies would be immune to discovery.
So no, the spooks are not gonna look at your deepest secrets that you put in CleverBot 9000, but giving your data to Sam "Give me your eyes for 20 bucks" Altman was stupid. Yes, if you are capable of reaching this site it's your *fault*, you should know better.