dino7h ago
Erik Uden 🚩

Over decades, people began to embrace new media (like film and television), sports, and an ever-quickening pace of life. Books were abridged or degraded to accommodate shorter attention spans.

— Wikipedia article on Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

— a direct quote from Frank Herbert in Dune (1965)

Nowadays we have TikTok and AI. We can't even say we weren't warned, dawg, they knew 😭😭😭

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Show threadThe Casual Critic16h ago
@ErikUden the Dune "prequels" notwithstanding, my personal canon remains that the Butlerian Jihad wasn't against terminator style robot overlords, but a campaign to prevent _intellectual_ dependency on computers.
Show threadThe Casual Critic15h ago
@ErikUden there's also a great bit from Neal Stephenson's Anathem which is too long to quote here, but I found it here https://medium.com/@k0ryk/neal-stephensons-llm-predictions-7fbb3b39607
Neal Stephenson’s LLM Predictions

Will the speculations in his stories continue to be accurate?

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Show threadSkylar the Ferret13h ago
@ErikUden If you asked Kafka to write a dystopian horror novel about the modern political landscape of the USA, he'd just tell you that you already have a story that can't be beat.
Show threadElizabeth  10h ago
@ErikUden If it makes you feel any better, AI is overwhelmingly unpopular in the US at least.