@SnowyCA
@monotonehell
@dgar

Keep laughing...until you check out this pic and the beginning of the thread:

"👉Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNiche👈

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Yesterday or today there was a report that "rogue programmers" had reprogrammed LLM's - without "guard rails".
Humanity is collectively dumber than #IsaacAsimov could have imagined for many years in #TheCompleteRobot.
In fact, humanity is even dumber than the only

@[email protected] @carturo222 @obot50549535

#Dystopias #SciFi

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...phalanx of prime negative #utopian, I think (and once had a list of in a Mastodon post,) in particular #TheMatrix, and Asimov's #TheCompleteRobot.
(There are some others I mentioned in this thread/convo of mine, https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109894787077782438).

[If I find that list again, I'll post an update right here.]

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@atomicpoet
Probably, but I couldn't resist. 😉

In fact,
@mina and I, as well as many others, just had an interesting discussion about my all-time favorite #SciFi saga, #Dune, including its remake. 🤜🤛

For me, #TheCompleteRobot, though technically not a saga, is in 2nd place, followed closely by #BattlestarGalactica, not the original series getting the bronze metal jointly with #Foundation.

However, regarding scope, there is nothing that beats #PerryRhodan, the biggest series ever.

@danimo @human_with_piano
@admin @mina
👉Mensch & Machine belegen die selbe #ÖkologischeNische👈
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Gestern oder heute kam eine Meldung das "rogue programmers" LLM's umprogrammiert hätten - ohne "guardrails".
Die Menschheit ist kollektiv Dümmer als sich dies #IsaacAsimov im #TheCompleteRobot über viele Jahre hätte vorstellen können. Die Menschheit ist sogar Dümmer, als die einzige Spezie, die sich bislang global selbst die Lebensgrundlage entzogen hat: #Cyanobakterien im #GreatOxidationEvent..

@GottaLaff

Some days, I could just jump off a cliff.

This reality is fast becoming an amalgamate of all the negative #utopias I read years ago:

#1984,
#Fahrenheit451,
#TheMatrix,
#SecondVariety,
#Wargames, #TheCompleteRobot, #Terminator including its #Skynet,
#Robocop,
#DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep? (#Bladerunner),
and
#TheHandMaidsTale.
Hopefully, we are not also heading for #TheMinorityReport already (#AGI?)

These are only the ones out of the top of my head.

@Pastafari

...#TheCompleteRobot:

https://archive.org/details/completerobot00asim/mode/1up

(PLEASE donate to the #InternetArchive)

https://www.pastemagazine.com/tech/6-internet-archive-collections-lawsuit-digital-library

@simon @annaleen

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...I know, I am sounding alarmist, but having read/seen much #ScienceFiction, all the necessary ingredients for an #ExtinctionLevelEvent (#ELE] for #humanity are in place.

Just as a teaser: unquestionably, most of the world's endangered species could be rescued if the #HomoSapiens were no longer at the top of the #FoodChain...
No #ZerothLaw, and a #Bing-empowered, freed #ChatGPT could quickly arrive at this conclusion...

Now, after heaving read #TheCompleteRobot,...