• Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        you literally lived through the era of buying research chemicals , which were literally described in Transmetropolitan[1], through “the silk road” an encrypted exchange that sold drugs using cryptocurrency.

        What fucking future sight psychedelics were you missing?

        [1] Transmet describes drugs that circumvent drugs laws that exist for hours before they are banned. Research chemicals are drugs that mimic more famous ones but are legally distrinct from them, that get banned sooner or later.

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    • Birch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Well I for one think the torment nexus will be a swell thing once completed. Will it torment some peoples digital consciousnesses for aeons? Sure, but think of the upsides!

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Thanks for the recommendation.

      I’d heard of Forster, but never made the time. After reading the first few pages of The Machine Stops it looks interesting. The hyper drive for ‘efficiency’, presented as rational but leading to absurdities I think fits our times and the dissatisfaction with Classical and Neoliberal economic policies, likely the culture war driven faux-Christian morality of many as well.

      I think its time to have a look at Forster more carefully. He was involved in the Bloomsbury Set, which is where I’d heard of him before.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I don’t know how anyone can have lived in the world built by the goals of business leaders and decide they will suddenly have different goals if we just empower them even more…

  • BilSabab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Too bad baby Herbert rendered Butlerian Jihad into a Terminator story… a generational L for sci-fi.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Maybe humanity should learn from this and start the Butlerian Jihad before AI gets too powerful?

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Luckily LLM’s don’t actually think, but the amount of people willing to replace their own thoughts with fancy answering machines is kinda creepy though. So if we ever managed machines that actually think, we should definitely remember this, yeah.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      LLMs have been around for awhile. I had a temp job working on an LLM 7 years ago. It was always referred to as an “LLM” or “machine learning”. I never once saw or heard anybody calling it “artificial intelligence” or “AI”. This rebranding is to convince people that it’s something completely new and that it’s capable of doing things that it can’t do.