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I'm quite conscious of being repetitive here, but The Truman Show is relevant again: > Why don't you let me fix you some of this new Mococoa drink? All-natural
by Terr_ 3mo ago
I'm quite conscious of being repetitive here, but The Truman Show is relevant again:
> Why don't you let me fix you some of this new Mococoa drink? All-natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artificial sweeteners. I've tasted other cocoas. This is the best.
- matheusmoreira 3mo ago> What the hell are you talking about? Who are you talking to? One of the most dystopic, soul destroying films I've ever watched.
- rglover 3mo agoMy wife and I routinely re-enact this in the kitchen when we've both hit our "holy shit what the fuck" maximum.
- byte_0 3mo agoI watched this movie and missed that this was mentioned. Funnily, I am from and live in Nicaragua and find it funny that we have no such land formation. I am assuming that is the point you are trying to make.
- Terr_ 3mo ago> I am assuming that is the point you are trying to make. Not exactly. My point is that LLMs dramatically increase the danger and risk of certain types of manipulation, fraud, and brainwashing. Those things will become much easier to do cheaply and secretly and at a large scale. The Truman Show offers a useful way to convey those kinds of risks, but the details of the product being sold doesn't really matter, we just need to know that the company is willing to do those kinds of things. > no such land formation I'm sure the script-writers knew this. I believe they chose it because they wanted to make a satire (mocking joke) of real-world coffee-products being sold at a certain time, but did not want to include details that that some real-company (or country) could get too angry about.