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A Mayan Guide to Surviving Climate Change
(Spoiler: It Didn’t Work)
The results showed that the Harris campaign, and Democrats more broadly, had failed to find an effective message against Mr. Trump and his down-ballot allies or to address voters’ unhappiness about the direction of the nation under Mr. Biden. The issues the party chose to emphasize — abortion rights and the protection of democracy — did not resonate as much as the economy and immigration, which Americans often highlighted as among their most pressing concerns.
Last week’s childrens’ story, written with the assistance of an A.I. language model, began with this prompt:
In the style of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, tell the story of a Mayan oracle living in the Classic Era who tells the great Lord that a massive drought is approaching, and many will die unless they relocate the city-state 500 miles away to a completely different ecosystem. He knows this by reading the phenological signs and matching them to the Mayan almanac for…