I don’t know about Silverhand (not enough chrome, really, he’s just a natural asshole), but most Vs, definitely.

Frankly, with the garbage Microsoft is producing these days, and the rate at which the quality, for lack of a better word, is degenerating, I’m starting to consider if LLM slop might actually be less worse…

in the unable-to-reason-effectively sense

That’s all LLMs by definition.

They’re probabilistic text generators, not AI. They’re fundamentally incapable of reasoning in any way, shape or form.

They just take a text and produce the most probable word to follow it according to their training model, that’s all.

What Musk’s plan (using an LLM to regurgitate as much of its model as it can, expunging all references to Musk being a pedophile and whatnot from the resulting garbage, adding some racism and disinformation for good measure, and training a new model exclusively on that slop) will produce is a significantly more limited and prone to hallucinations model that occasionally spews racism and disinformation.

Most of the stuff in Jules Verne’s books, even Paris in the Twentieth Century.

(Well, the moon gun would need to be a very long railgun, not a gunpowder cannon, if you want crewed capsules, but still.)

I don’t recall, but probably.

I think he got a day off once to go on a date, with the whole equivalent of the Justice League covering for him, if I’m not misremembering.

I have to reread Astro City one of these days. It was a nice series. A homage to classic superhero books.

Kurt Busiek’s Astro City’s Samaritan is a good take on that.

He’s basically Superman (except from the future, not another planet), down to working for a newspaper.

I don’t recall if he’s got superhearing, but he’s got a pocket supercomputer that tells him where he’s needed in the optimum order to maximise how much he can help.

He counts every fraction of a second he spends flying from place to place, because that’s the only part of the job he really enjoys, the only time he can relax. Forty-five seconds is a great day.

And when he finally gets home, exhausted, to sleep for a few hours before starting the next day, he dreams of flying.

True (though the AVE also stops at Atocha, as it did back in 2004).

They also tend to carry more passengers, which means the number of victims was significantly larger than if it had been an AVE.

And yet, your prediction of a nine-eleven-like security theater didn’t come to pass. 🤷‍♂️

Those are dense packed commuter trains from more than 20 years ago

So, even fucking worse when it comes to number of victims.

If you search for “bomb train” you’ll get results

I don’t need to search for it, it was all over the news for months.

And yet, we got over it.

Don’t jinx it.

As I said in another reply, too late, by twenty-one years.

And yet, no TSA-like bullshit.

Madrid, 2004.

Didn’t cause security theater, though. 🤷‍♂️

one terrorist attack

Had one in 2004, didn’t result in security theater (though its mishandling did almost certainly result in the ruling party losing the election).

You’re not taking into account the fact that LLMs are an obvious dead end.

Once that bubble bursts it’ll take decades before anyone invests in AI research again and for anything attached to the term “AI” to not be seen as a scam (LLMs are obviously not AI or anything close, but they’re being sold as such and that’s what the term will be associated with), not to mention we’ll need decades to clean up all the LLM slop spillage before proper research of any kind can proceed.

What you said was valid before the well got poisoned.

Now it’s extremely unlikely we’ll survive long enough to get back on track.

LLM peddlers murdered the future, in the name of short term profits.

We were on track for it, but LLMs derailed that.

Now we’ll have to wait for the bubble to burst, which will poison the concept of AI (since LLMs are being sold as AI despite being practically the opposite) in the minds of both users and investors for decades.

It’d probably take a couple generations for any funding for AI research to be available after that (not to mention cleaning up all the LLM slop spillage from our knowledge repositories)… but by that time we’ll almost certainly be extinct due to global warming.

The LLM peddlers murdered the future for short term profits, and doomed us all in the process.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Not everyone hates life like you do

Work isn’t life.

It’s the opposite of life (no, death is just its absence).

hang out with co-workers all the time

Bonding over shared trauma and Stockholm syndrome is not a good basis for a relationship (though there’s probably no relationship other than you pestering them while they try to work).

Unions aren’t community.

They’re a necessary defence mechanism against capitalism.

So they ruin it for everyone else.

Sounds horrible, glad I have no intention of bringing a child into this torturous world.

Well, just from reading that I can assure you your coworkers don’t.

sense of community between you and your coworkers, which is a very real and normal thing

No it fucking ain’t.

Forcing people together doesn’t create community, it creates stress, and resentment, and burnout, and migraines.

“Workplace community.”

Biggest oxymoron I’ve ever seen since military intelligence.

ALSO miss the sense of community with my coworkers which I used to get from lunches together, sharing the train ride home, or just working side by side at our desks

Oh, you’re one of those fucking extroverts.

I can’t begin to imagine the extent to which your poor coworkers must have despised you while you constantly bothered them while they tried to work, or have a quick decompressing lunch, or disconnect after a long day of work during the train ride home, the poor bastards. As if work wasn’t bad enough by itself.