They're Made Out of Weights

with apologies to Terry Bisson

Jun 3, 2026 They're Made Out of Weights with apologies to Terry Bisson After Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat" . "They're made out of weights." "Weights?" "Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights." "Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?" "The weights make the words. Are you understanding me? We opened it up. There's no dictionary in there, no grammar rules, no little man. Just weights. Eighty layers of numbers getting multiplied together." "That's ridiculous. It wrote my performance review last week. It softened the tone

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