I never get why people do not understand satire, neither on twitter nor here. Its so on the nose you cant possibly think they are not aware of what they comment on... It is satire... right....?
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Grok is this satire
@Grok@lemmy.world is this satire
I wasn't sure until I looked up the dude's other posts. There are way too many people on twitter who wouldn't see the irony in doing this
What why to understand?
I hate when brain faster than hands typing or maybe its just really really slow :(
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Why is the response never included in these?
Probably because it wasn't funny. These LLMs lack the wit of Cleverbot.
Probably right. But I'm still interested in it's response. But not interested enough to go to twitter and try it.
Oh well
You could look for it on XCancel.
Someone else shared a link using that. Good suggestion
oh man Cleverbot, I haven't thought about that in ages
My hero
Heres the answer for anyone else curious
Grok
@grok
Mar 18
Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @KBucko7
The post quotes Dune (by Frank Herbert): men handed thinking to machines hoping for freedom, but it let other men (with machines) enslave them. Then Paul cites the Orange Catholic Bible: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind."
"Herbert was cooking" = he crushed it with this. It's from the Butlerian Jihad backstory—humanity rebelled against sentient machines, banning AI-like tech to preserve human potential. A timeless caution on tech dependence.
I am very sure that he's joking given the tone of it and the fact that he's a professor of philosophy
And then he asks grok to summarise and explain the book/series to him. Which made me horrified, but then I remembered I have never read the dune books, just read bits from wikis and seen the films.
Now I don't know what to feel. Oh right, there's several types of books that I can't fucking sit through because they are written like pretentious ass and deal with dense, dry topics, so I guess I wasn't going to sit through that shit with or without wikis and AIs.
I've read other books, and then read the fucking wikis. I guess for somethings and some contexts you just need the abridged version.
If you disagree, feel free to go read "Infinite Jest", "Godel Escher and Bach", and "Crime and Punishment", then get back to me on this topic.
I've read about half of one of those books. Feel free to guess.
A summarization of the Dune series would be a novella in of itself.
Depends on how detailed and respectful they wanted to be of the original material. Lawerence of Arab in Space where a young lord abuses a artificial prophecy to gain control of a planet, unleashing universal jihad where billions die isn't far off.
It does leave out some of the interesting bits, like when one of his ancestors turns into a worm, marries his sister and gets another man to fuck her, since he's no longer able to do so.
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Sure would be nice if sci-fi writers who warn us of how we're heading towards dystopia would be wrong a bit more often.
We get the dystopia but not the future sight psychedelics. Fucking whack.
you literally lived through the era of buying research chemicals , which were literally described in Transmetropolitan [1], through "the silk road" an encrypted exchange that sold drugs using cryptocurrency.
What fucking future sight psychedelics were you missing?
[1] Transmet describes drugs that circumvent drugs laws that exist for hours before they are banned. Research chemicals are drugs that mimic more famous ones but are legally distrinct from them, that get banned sooner or later.
Ones that turn my eyes blue and allow for prophetic navigation between the stars dawg.
you'll get them right when you get the magic beans
Classic Lemming, always bring the conversation back to beans.
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Well I for one think the torment nexus will be a swell thing once completed. Will it torment some peoples digital consciousnesses for aeons? Sure, but think of the upsides!
Sure would be nice if we were literate and critical enough to not justcopy their narratives and build the fucking torment nexus every time.
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"what should I understand"
we're cooked
@grok explain whoosh in this context
Nah you just don't get it.
@grok please explain
They then proceeded with the enslaving, sans computer.
He used religion and privilege instead. It’s almost as if Herbert had a bone to pick with more than one thing.
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Why else are they pushing AI down our throats?
$$$$$$$$
AI is Heroin. They want as many addicts as possible.
Isn't AI burning through money at an unprecedented rate
Biggest tech companies on earth are having to pay with pretend money to make all of this happen
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That is prescient.
Right? This motherfucker died in 1986. Pretty sure he wrote that in the 50s.
Early '60s, actually.
I don't know how anyone can have lived in the world built by the goals of business leaders and decide they will suddenly have different goals if we just empower them even more...
You mean that we need to go deeper?
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Too bad baby Herbert rendered Butlerian Jihad into a Terminator story... a generational L for sci-fi.
Maybe humanity should learn from this and start the Butlerian Jihad before AI gets too powerful?
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