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E: sorry slight spoilers for old and popular science fiction series. (You'd think they would have picked some more positive but less well known transhumanist science fiction books with nice societies, or pick specifics they liked but nope).

The Foundation is a horrible place to live, it is a frontier city created under false pretenses where you live under constant threat of a crisis, manipulated from afar by the second foundation, while 'Rome' falls apart around them. Billions die.

Hyperion is a horrible place to live, the main hegemonic force is a hypercolonialist empire that destroys all variety, kills the dolphins, is secretly run by AIs who abuse humanity, power everything by destroying the energy that gives us love, and morph into a authoritarian theocracy secretly run by AIs who are now at war with the beings in the love dimension. Also, billions die when the first empire falls.

Ringworld is ... not a book series I remember much from, read it when I was young, might be ok might not be.

Also all these worlds also have a big magical element in it, dune with all the spice stuff, hyperion with the love dimension, foundation with the psi powers and magical prediction powers. And they are setups for the stories conflicts (and well, stories).

It is all a bit like saying you want Singularity skies Festival arrive without reading up on what happens afterwards. Helps if you actually read books not skim through them in 2 hours.

E: I need to make a confession, this guy changed my mind on agentic LLMs. They should use them, it will improve their reading comprehension. (they should also add pronouns, if they don't want to be called they)

I want my kids to be science experiments as there is no other way an ethics board would approve this kind.

"Yes," chatGPT whispered gently ASMR style, "you should but that cryptocoin it is a good investment". And thus the aliens sectioned off the Sol solar system forever.

Using a death for critihype jesus fuck

It is a bit like alien vs predator. Whoever wins, we lose. (And even that is owned by disney).

Uni is also a good place to learn to fail. A uni run startup imitation place can ensure both problems (guided by profs if needed) and teach people how to do better, without being in the pockets of VCs also better hours, and parties.

Nostalgia has a lowkey reactionary impulse part(see also why those right wing reactionary gamer streamers who do ten hour reactive criticize a movie streams have their backgrounds filled with consumer nerd media toys (and almost never books)) and fear of change is also a part of conservatism. 'Engineering minds' who think they can solve things, and have a bit more rigid thinking also tend to be attracted to more extremist ideologies (which usually seems to have more rigid rules and lesser exceptions), which also leads back to the problem where people like this are bad at not realizing their minds are not typical (I can easily use a console so everyone else can and should). So it makes sense to me. Not sure if the ui thing is elitism or just a strong desire to create and patrol the borders of an ingroup. (But isnt that just what elitism is?)

Right, yeah i just recall that for a high enough bit of towers the amount of steps needed to solve it rises quickly. The story, "Now Inhale", by Eric Frank Russell, uses 64 discs. Fun story.

Min steps is 2 to the power the number of disks minus 1.

Programming a system that solves it was a programming excersize for me a long time ago. Those are my stronger memories of it

Latter test fails if they write a specific bit of code to put out the 'llms fail the river crossing' fire btw. Still a good test.

Sorry what is the link between bioware and towers of hanoi? (I do know about the old "one final game before your execution" science fiction story).

I have not looked at a video just images but this looks like it is unreadable outside. Which brings up an interesting failure of testing, that they never left the building with the sun out.