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Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease canwecanwecanwe

Fire up those guillotines...

Dunno, ask the mentat

Did Kirk ever meet an AI he _didn't_ have to wrestle control back from? Landru, M-5, Nomad, Mudd's androids... Ok, he or his crew broke half of them with sex (Vger, Rayna, Andrea...) but still. Wasn't until TNG that computers running things was only SOMETIMES bad. (And include Data in that.)

national divorce

They had a point.

We doing this ?! Hell yeah!

Can't get here soon enough.

Let's-a-go!

Not much of a Butlerian Jihad if you don't wind up with the Golden Lion Throne and the Bene Gesserit afterwards.

It's also like, we've played the tape out already. Even an old pervert like Asimov has thought out where this all leads. Why the hell haven't you assholes?

Which makes no sense, because everybody likes omelettes.

In the Asimov’s future story timeline the positronic brains do indeed solve all the world problems and after that they shut down themselves because they realise they are killing what makes humans human.

Not disputing, but robots are different from disembodied AI that generates non-factual information and obscene deepfakes.

I, Robot was a critique of Asimov's Laws of Robotics so I get it

I like the one where the AI just wants to belong and take care of people (Chaos on Catnet)

Yeah, the Culture always seems fun for an average citizen of the Culture, but God help you if any of those Minds take an interest in you or decide you are uniquely needed for something.

In "Evidence" and "The Evitable Conflict" the 2nd law of robotics forces the robots conspire to place a robot at the head of the world government.

The AI in Optimal does that. By killing off most of humanity and convincing the survivors that a bunch of robots are actual people.

The rest is real problems, but "job taking" I want to argue about: Other than destroying the fun jobs (like art and music), "job taking" is good, actually. Replace the Luddism with socialism.

found out the other day that our 12yo was finishing reading Starter Villain, felt good that we was reading someone knowing his footing in this jerked off times we're living in (plus, cats!)

BUTLERIAN. JIHAD.

"Because you listed about four reasons why *yourself*, O Techbro of No Cluefulness. That's why."

Yeah, you know you don't have to work. You don't have to eat or raise your kids and just let the AI do it right? They don't get it. The odds of this working out right for most of the people is very low.

Also, Skynet. And Hal

they should have at least read Vonnegut in high school... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_...

It is insane of the ai people to demand all of humanity’s thought for free so they can just sell them back to us. It’s stuff like this that they seem unaware will cause their demise.

The fuck stick Sam Altman literally said he wants to control all information and sell it back to us.

Well yeah like technically we could consider Nazism a "revolution," but for that reason anyone smarter than a Nazi has a bit of skepticism about the term "revolutionary"

I recommend Day Zero, by @crobertcargill.bsky.social, as a possible AI future that none of us would want. ☠️

Almost everyone who wants a revolution has a very specific perception of who will fall and who will rise. Revolutions, when they come, are notorious for how they do not follow the plan.

Computer Science prof here. Brother, I’m with you. I wrote a short story about a post-AI-won-world. Small hint. You don’t want to be a human in that world.

Machine learning = awesome Big data tools = cool Generative AI = sh&t You have the correct take on AI.

we have too many cats not to, but it's one of the off brand ones and it just does vaccuum nothing else. little guy is our mvp there'd be litter everywhere if not for him.

That just prompted me to imagine, “Harlan Ellison, author of ‘I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,’ how can you say you don’t like AI?”