[automatoney]

I haven't read any Marucs Aurelius, so my impression might be off, but the way the AI speaks feels... I don't know, like a British person, or some American from an older time? It keeps saying "my dear" which feels very incorrect. I studied Latin in school, so maybe I'm more used to the translationese and odd grammar you see with that (like here - although this is also an older translation so you get some of that older english vibe https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2680/pg2680-images.html)

I'm guessing this was trained on a certain translation of his works, but I think part of the fun of speaking to a bot would be to replicate that sort of language barrier feeling.

[perihelions]

(For context: that translation is a 1634 one by Méric Casaubon, with an introduction written in 1900 by W. H. D. Rouse. Seems Project Gutenberg is missing this authorship information, or lost a title page somewhere).

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus_-_H...