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qirex
Feb 15, 2001

in a well actually posted:

wasn’t that the outcome of the state of the art?

imho worst culture story (and book) by far, it is
stupid earth exceptionalism; like there’s multiple species known to culture that genetically engineers a subgroup of their species for torture and mutilation for entertainment and they are shocked and appalled by 80s London so bad they give up on the whole thing.

Culture books work as an exaggerated reflection of society and state of the art breaks all that

you misunderstood the story

also: "I think the first point to make about the Culture is, I'm just making it up as I go along. It doesn't exist and I don't delude myself that it does."

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dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

banks is probably my favourite western sci-fi author

Beeftweeter posted:

they're titans of industry that can't create aliens. but they can attempt to create "AGI" and then go "oh jeez creating AGI was inevitable, see? the theories are right, my worldview is confirmed"

what happens if you create the solution first without insight to any processes leading up to it? brilliant!

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

"we're going to build and control god" is no less magical thinking than "god made a garden with the first two people in it"

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

qirex posted:

you misunderstood the story

it’s that an AGI ship sending in song requests is hilarious, right?

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

Jonny 290 posted:

What's the news?
they don't fit the sleevies! :xd:

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



in a well actually posted:

tired: Judeo-Christian god was an alien
wired: Judeo-Christian god was an alien ai

i keep meaning to read valis

Skinnymansbeerbelly
Apr 1, 2010
That moment switching from "Hell yeah more pkd" to "The estate is clearly exploiting his mental illness"

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Agile Vector posted:

i keep meaning to read valis

it's a rough read, imo

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
it’s worth reading but very obviously the product of an ill mind

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

haveblue posted:

it’s worth reading but very obviously the product of an ill mind
new signature lookin' good haveblue

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

FMguru posted:

new signature lookin' good haveblue

lmao

well-read undead
Dec 13, 2022

FMguru posted:

new signature lookin' good haveblue

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



infernal machines posted:

it's a rough read, imo

i figured it was gonna be, even his best days books can be intense and chaotic

Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:

That moment switching from "Hell yeah more pkd" to "The estate is clearly exploiting his mental illness"

yeaaaaaah :smith:

FMguru posted:

new signature lookin' good haveblue

:vince:

mystes
May 31, 2006

haveblue posted:

it’s worth reading but very obviously the product of an ill mind
Isn't that every pkd work?

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



sometimes it's also the product of drugs

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

there's literally a thread on that EA forum about "why haven't we been destroyed by an AGI built by aliens yet???" :thunk:

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
why hasn't god smited us for our sinfulness

Eeyo
Aug 29, 2004

Shame Boy posted:

there's literally a thread on that EA forum about "why haven't we been destroyed by an AGI built by aliens yet???" :thunk:

i think it’s because the aliens are afraid of roko’s basilisk.

Dukes Mayo Clinic
Aug 31, 2009

Chris Knight posted:

they don't fit the sleevies! :xd:

I asked my wife where the king kept his armies, and when she said she didn’t know, I told her.

I expect the divorce papers to arrive any minute but it was worth it.

Dukes Mayo Clinic
Aug 31, 2009

Improbable Lobster posted:

why hasn't god smited us for our sinfulness

AI babble drowning out useful information online reminds me of something biblical. Shame I don’t know how to search the internet anymore.

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple on pizzadog derangement syndrome

FMguru posted:

new signature lookin' good haveblue

:perfect:

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
its terry davis, the losethos guy

occasionally medicated schizophrenic, would kramer into places including sa whacking down markov net results then gettin banned for callin peeps the n word

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

bob dobbs is dead posted:

its terry davis, the losethos guy

occasionally medicated schizophrenic, would kramer into places including sa whacking down markov net results then gettin banned for callin peeps the n word

truly ahead of his time, in retrospect

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

bob dobbs is dead posted:

its terry davis, the losethos guy

occasionally medicated schizophrenic, would kramer into places including sa whacking down markov net results then gettin banned for callin peeps the n word

maybe he was the first mind uploaded to the net

in a well actually
Jan 26, 2011

dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

Shame Boy posted:

there's literally a thread on that EA forum about "why haven't we been destroyed by an AGI built by aliens yet???" :thunk:

literally what started this conversation a page ago

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

in a well actually posted:

literally what started this conversation a page ago

oh yeah buddy well i literally can't read

Buck Turgidson
Feb 6, 2011

𓀬𓀠𓀟𓀡𓀢𓀣𓀤𓀥𓀞𓀬
I can't find it but I swear a couple of months ago there was a stickied post about applying for EA grant money to make forum posts. Getting paid to post.....:cloudnine:

well-read undead
Dec 13, 2022

Shame Boy posted:

there's literally a thread on that EA forum about "why haven't we been destroyed by an AGI built by aliens yet???" :thunk:

in a well actually posted:

literally what started this conversation a page ago

Shame Boy posted:

oh yeah buddy well i literally can't read

wow it’s getting real literary in here

mystes
May 31, 2006

in a well actually posted:

literally what started this conversation a page ago
that's past my knowledge cutoff

Internet Janitor
May 17, 2008

"That isn't the appropriate trash receptacle."

Dukes Mayo Clinic posted:

AI babble drowning out useful information online reminds me of something biblical. Shame I don’t know how to search the internet anymore.

and CHATGPT said:
as an AI i am unable to render divine proclamations, but behold, the people is one, and they have all one large language model; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. is there anything else i can help you with?

MeruFM
Jul 27, 2010
has someone made a fascist-simile chatbot that talked like the starship troopers computer lady? Would you like to know more?

leper khan
Dec 28, 2010
Honest to god thinks Half Life 2 is a bad game. But at least he likes Monster Hunter.

MeruFM posted:

has someone made a fascist-simile chatbot that talked like the starship troopers computer lady? Would you like to know more?

I'm not doing my part

Eeyo
Aug 29, 2004

MeruFM posted:

has someone made a fascist-simile chatbot that talked like the starship troopers computer lady? Would you like to know more?

service fees guarantee citizenship

Mr. Crow
May 22, 2008

Snap City mayor for life

Eeyo posted:

service fees guarantee citizenship

Lol

Internet Janitor
May 17, 2008

"That isn't the appropriate trash receptacle."
"i signed up for a lifetime citizenship plan"
"no refunds. thanks for joining us on this incredible journey"

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

Eeyo posted:

service fees guarantee citizenship

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Eeyo posted:

service fees guarantee citizenship

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Eeyo posted:

service fees guarantee citizenship

thread title

dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

Eeyo posted:

service fees guarantee citizenship

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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



bob dobbs is dead posted:

its terry davis, the losethos guy

occasionally medicated schizophrenic, would kramer into places including sa whacking down markov net results then gettin banned for callin peeps the n word

poo poo, if he'd just posted in fyad he could be alive today

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