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> Children exposed to personalized LLMs will grow up inside many tiny, tailored realities. It's like the verbal equivalent of The Veldt by Ray Bradbury.[0] [0
by TimTheTinker 1y ago
> Children exposed to personalized LLMs will grow up inside many tiny, tailored realities.
It's like the verbal equivalent of The Veldt by Ray Bradbury.[0]
[0] https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-veldt https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-veldt
- astrange 1y agoThe moral of this story is that if you install a really good TV the animals will come out of it and eat you? Is the author a dog?
- TimTheTinker 1y agoI suggest taking a literature course and learning how to interpret narratives. The Veldt is a classic short story written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury, a famous and celebrated author, who also wrote the famous dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.
- astrange 1y agoIronically, Bradbury likes to tell people that Fahrenheit 451 isn't about the thing it was obviously supposed to be about (censorship) because he now wants it to have been a metaphor for cancel culture.
- f33d5173 1y agoCancel culture is censorship?
- astrange 1y agoOne of those involves fulltime professionals backed by state violence and the other is when people on social media are mad at you.
- ethbr1 1y agoIsn't the only difference whether the censors are in or out of government power? Few now respect the wisdom of 'should not' even when 'can'
- astrange 1y agoThat difference is so big it makes it an entirely different thing.
- TimTheTinker 1y ago> when people on social media are mad at you It's about more than that - many people have lost their jobs, been de-banked, or even been arrested (especially in countries like the UK and Germany) for expressing their opinion publicly when that opinion was merely (a) what most people in their country believed in the recent past (< 50 years ago), and (b) a politically incorrect opinion.
- jayGlow 1y agohe's been dead for a decade so I doubt he now wants the meaning to be anything. besides that he also never said anything about cancel culture he said it's about how tv turns you into a moron. https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the-true-meaning-of-fahrenheit-451.html https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the...
- astrange 1y ago> In a 1994 interview, Bradbury stated that Fahrenheit 451 was more relevant during this time than in any other, stating that, "it works even better because we have political correctness now. Political correctness is the real enemy these days. The black groups want to control our thinking and you can't say certain things. The homosexual groups don't want you to criticize them. It's thought control and freedom of speech control." They had cancel culture in the 90s too.
- coffeeindex 1y ago> you can’t say certain things So he sees it as another form of censorship
- TimTheTinker 1y agoCancel culture is vigilante political correctness. Next comes legalized, then deputized, then militarized...
- ethbr1 1y agoGiven that only about 10-40% of advanced readers (depending on subpopulation criteria and task [0]) can parse analogy and metaphor, parent is the majority rather than the minority. Modern day statistics on what used to be basic reading comprehension are bleak. [0] https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-cant-read https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-...