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ginoputrino@veronica It's much harder to find gold in all that noise. Doug Adams:
"In the past the whales had been able to sing to each other across whole oceans, even from one ocean to another because sound travels such huge distances underwater. But now, again because of the way in which sound travels, there is no part of the ocean that is not constantly jangling with the hubbub of ships’ motors, through which it is now virtually impossible for the whales to hear each other’s songs or messages." (1/x)
@veronica "So fucking what, is pretty much the way that people tend to view this problem, and understandably so, thought Dirk. After all, who wants to hear a bunch of fat fish, oh all right, mammals, burping at each other?
But for a moment Dirk had a sense of infinite loss and sadness that somewhere amongst the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods". (2/2)
We are being engulfed in LLM trash.
River@ginoputrino @veronica kindly asking for a link to the full source of that quote, because that is a beautiful piece of writing
@riverpunk @veronica Hi River - agree, one of my favorites. It is from "The long dark tea-time of the soul" by Douglas Adams. It is the second book in his Dirk Gently series (the first being "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"). But you can read them in any order, and IMHO teatime is the superior work.