I passed my defense with some minor revision requests from my committee that I'm working through today; it is very funny coming back to my punchier commentary and seeing them be like "hmm rethink this"

a footnote in a section on Sam Altman's find-my-friends startup Loopt: "Arguably, ChatGPT could also be framed as a product to prevent people from never having to eat lunch alone, although I don’t know if “lunch with a sycophantic imaginary friend who might encourage you to commit suicide or start a cult” is an improvement."