so unless it’s a very clever ploy, it seems that jms has lost the plot:
The standalone book of Harlan Ellison’s I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM is taking preorders, with writing essays by Harlan, and since MOUTH was the first AI story, for fun we fed it into an AI system and asked for its opinion. The reply is fascinating.
yeah, he got got very badly.
i wonder what the bluesky’s brandon paddock (brandonlive.com), the microsoft’s ms word ai architect has to say about it.
sometimes you neet to transform the graph to achieve the expected results, but generally yes.
there’s a new variant of the old crypto affinity grift around, too: banning crypto projects is transphobia.
this is obvious bullshit: theoretically, my writing is affected by two factors that might skew the assessment towards it having been generated by an llm: i’m neurodivergent (adhd) and english is not my native language – and i was never accused of using synthetic text generators…
isn’t it possible through a magic incantation?
neuromancer is brilliant prose first and foremost, and yudkowsky not being able to realise this is so very symptomatic
matthew sheffield out there on bluesky reports that dawkins, unsurprisingly, got one-shotted by claude.
i’m still remarkably happy with fedora’s kde on my laptop, but i’m also very content with the current state of wayland (with obvious caveats about use cases and personal idiosyncrasies).
i’m running xfce on a remote ubuntu box at work though, using rdp for connections, and it’s, well, fine. lacks some things i like in full DEs, but it’s perfectly adequate for the job.
(both beat fucking windows 11 when it comes to being usable for me)
the post itself is talking about vapourware too: fortunately none of these features will really land this year in any usable form.
enjoy the yank (and no labelers) :-)
:-)
there’s this. (though i find it useful to know who not to rely on if/when things get worse: for example i already know our neighbour from the apartment a floor below did write many missives to our cooperative’s administration, without having a single reason.)
like i said, the actual value of that little exercise is finding people who are fine with killing up to 50% of the population for no reason whatsoever.
they seem to be mostly angry that banks didn’t write their vision of the post-singularity paradise.
and of course there’s absolutely nothing in the books that suggests it’s a problem. (hell, there’s a good chance there actually is a lively japanese folk dance fan community there despite the fact that earth was never a part of the culture.)
agree, plus: that blog is yet another case of people just not comprehending the scale of Culture’s civilisation and Culture’s culture. a Culture orbital is not just a fancy space station ffs.
(i’m entirely unsurprised by the number of genocidal ghouls in that hn thread)
i would be very, very happy to be fooled in this instance.