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The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/
59•ExMachina73•1h ago

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schoen•1h ago
With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.
nphardon•55m ago
There's a lot of em dashes in the article as well, along with some phrasing that is very LLM. I think this was written with a mix of LLM and human.
rafram•53m ago
You're not wrong, but part of the core problem with LLMs is that they write every blog post and README like they're writing the opening titles for Blade Runner.
hcs•47m ago
I would expect the LLM-ese to not repeat "called" like that.
jameshart•38m ago
Thematically appropriate for it to be difficult to tell something human-created from something generated by a computer.

Almost a bit too on the nose.

cgorlla•3m ago
A typographic Voight-Kampff test is pretty awesome.
ProllyInfamous•29m ago
Can we get off with "the em dashes" – I've been using them for years (checks post history:), decades.
warmjets222•17m ago
Pretty much anything professionally typeset will use the appropriate dashes.
kodablah•1h ago
Also touched on at https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/ (and the book)
alexpotato•27m ago
Came here to say the same thing.

I think the Alien one is even better: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/

Computer0•33m ago
I found this site [https://fontsinuse.com/] mentioned in the article to be quite interesting to browse through.
freetime2•20m ago
As someone who isn't a type nerd, I think a more apt title would be "The Title Cards in Blade Runner are Thoughtfully Executed."
lilboo•7m ago
Wow interesting read — I like his point… LLMs can get us 90% of the way there but it’s the human touch that makes us memorable

Haven’t read the alien article yet

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The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/
60•ExMachina73•1h ago•13 comments

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