paulwalk
Michael W Lucas 
Satire? People who pay for X don't do satire.
Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas@mwl The Muses of Satire and Irony both are dead, most likely from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
It's a miracle that The Onion somehow has the will to keep publishing.
jerVery very publicly asking the #tormentnexus to "explain" what the Torment Nexus is.
:hal_9000:Very very publicly asking the @TormentNexus to "explain" what the Torment Nexus is and why do People think it is bad.
Elizabeth
derptron@mwl Really love the Dune saga, INCLUDING the stuff written by his son, and I'm with the guy replying. People act like this is some massive insight Frank Herbert had. It's not really. It's more a plot device because he needed the characters to be doing everything with their minds and why would humanity develop the system that required their evolution to develop those skills if there hadn't been same massive argument with computers so bad it lasts 10000 years? That's it. Ooooh...my messiah.
@crazyeddie it is a plot device, no question.
it's also a good point. outsource your thinking and you lose yourself.
@mwl He obviously applied it to good effect and made a good effort of giving it a real history and a real imperative. "Use it or lose it," is pretty basic though.
I actually like what his son did with it here because it showed that this whole legal framework they developed against computers (not just AI -- any computer) was an irrational reaction that got codified by religious zealotry because a teenage girl had "visions" during a fever and humanity is always going to be that fucking stupid.
@crazyeddie yes, there's a balance in all things
Howard Cohen@mwl I think you win the internet today.
slash@mwl My guess is that's a bot, asking a human to write a summary, so whenever that quote comes up as a question, it can just replay the human's summary. Who needs an LLM?
@agreeable_landfall entirely possible, yes.
Pianosaurus 🕴@mwl Alan Levinovitz knows exactly what he is doing and asking here. Friends of Mastodon, I love you people, but seriously.... WHOOSH!
Jordi (Tubal Hippy)Even if this is satire, the problem with a joke like this is that the vast majority of people don't know who this guy is and have no context for his satire, so when the outsider sees his post, it just looks like he's unironically asking the AI chat bot. That isn't some sort of elevated humor. That's a dud joke. This is, of course, simply my opinion.
HappyCrow13
Klaus Frank@mwl It's X, so we'll probably never know.
However I'd kinda have liked to see what the reply of grok was to this too :p
Frost, wolf of winter 🐺🎄
@mwl Wowwwwwwww.
A Random Half-Giant
Lyall