k. have fun getting punched.
gerikson
joined 2 years ago
To find a partner and start a family? Or to dress so that people make fun of you online?
Something something poker up his backside.
Nice link ,but man is Reddit shit to read nowadays with the newish layout.
porque no les dos?
And for many people, the references whooshed over their heads in low earth orbit.
The entire "the world is running out of people" meme is just an attempt to find a non-religious rationale to limit reproductive choice.
OK I misremembered that part. It makes sense that after suffering trillions of losses the Culture would take steps to prevent the Idirans from doing it again.
And by "us" I meant fleshy meatbags, as opposed to Minds. Although in Excession he does raise the issue that there might be "psychotic" Minds. Gray Area's heart(?) is in the right place but it's easy to imagine them becoming a vigilante and pre-emptively nuking an especially annoying civilization.
Banks neatly sidesteps the "AI will inevitably kill us" scenario by making the Minds keep humans around for amusement/freshness. Part of the reasons for the Culture-Idiran war in Consider Phlebas and Look to Windward was that the Idirans did not want Minds in charge of their society.
Inorite? Even if there was the requirement of an API key being enabled that was only revealed after some time. If smeone says "my terminal has GPT now" of course your mind goes to it outputting sudo rm -rf / for some random prompt.
Edit nevertheless I am thankful because I've had a lot of fun identifying promptfondlers on lobste.rs and pointing and laughing at them.
Oh I am aware of the term's history[1], but just like the humble swastika some stuff can become tainted (although I believe that Ultima Thule the band is only locally infamous here in Sweden). I do know that if someone presented themselves as Ultima Thule I'd do a spit-take, but so would I if I was presented by someone named Titan Invictus.
Arrokoth is a fucking metal name tho.
[1] pretty sure the first I heard of it was in one of Evan S Connell's great collection of essays.
Already asked and answered elsewhere in the comments.
Edit see https://awful.systems/post/1587716