Monday links, oh the irony (opens in new tab)

Venkatesh Rao: Rediscovering Irony. I have had people call me cynical since early childhood, where I was merely being ironic. Rao notes one thing humans excel at that LLMs can’t do is irony — yay! — though he limits his discussion of irony in religion to Hinduism. Isn’t Christianity supremely ironic? Anna Havron: The Haunted Smart House. Ghosts in the machine, and there will be more and more of them.