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Had a number of sensible chuckles...

> Because this paper was written in 2024, we include an obligatory section involving generative AI and LLMs.

> Another ERA is the Mayfly Parenthood Assumption, in which all parents perish immediately upon naming their child, which makes the math substantially easier.

> It is well-known that parents are always in complete agreement over the name they would prefer to pick for their newborn child.



> We baselessly claim a log-normal makes sense...

I personally loved the semi cropped ChatGPT screen shot in figure 8 that has "Can you write me a paper on the game theory of names".


Also the dinosaur and squid-shaped distribution graphs made me smile.


More graphs need animal motifs.


Danger 5 was simply the best. https://imgur.com/P80uqLB


СЯУ...

(and I appreciate how every so often the subtitles in D5 are off)




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