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No idea if Asimov’s got worse, but what we’re living right now is so much stupider than any science fiction. AI, but it’s not actually intelligent and it often
by KerrAvon 2y ago
No idea if Asimov’s got worse, but what we’re living right now is so much stupider than any science fiction. AI, but it’s not actually intelligent and it often produces garbage. A fascist takeover of the US from the inside by the dumbest billionaires imaginable, because an entire segment of society got bored with their lives during pandemic lockdown and decided they’d rather live in an action movie than consensus reality.
Nearly infinite computing power on a glass rectangle in your pocket, and it’s only made humanity stupider, again thanks to billionaires who are too stupid to understand where their money and power derives from. And how it can be taken away.
- pfdietz 2y agoWe're living in a time when chickens are coming home to roost. A nation can't sustain greatness by borrowing forever. SF could have helped people come to grips with this inevitability, but I guess it didn't.
- greesil 2y agoThe solution was obvious circa 1940 - 1970s. It wasn't science fiction, it was what was in place then.
- greesil 2y agoWhen I followed Charles Stross on Twitter I recall him often saying that we are living in the stupidest possible timeline.