@philip_cardella@historians.social @carturo222 @obot50549535
(5/5)
...phalanx of prime negative #utopian, I think (and once had a list of in a Mastodon post,) in particular #TheMatrix, and Asimov's #TheCompleteRobot.
(There are some others I mentioned in this thread/convo of mine, https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109894787077782438).
[If I find that list again, I'll post an update right here.]
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@atomicpoet
Probably, but I couldn't resist. 😉
In fact,
@mina and I, as well as many others, just had an interesting discussion about my all-time favorite #SciFi saga, #Dune, including its remake. 🤜🤛
For me, #TheCompleteRobot, though technically not a saga, is in 2nd place, followed closely by #BattlestarGalactica, not the original series getting the bronze metal jointly with #Foundation.
However, regarding scope, there is nothing that beats #PerryRhodan, the biggest series ever.
@danimo @human_with_piano
(1/2)
Das Potenzial ist rießig.
Gestern oder heute kam eine Meldung das "rogue programmers" LLM's umprogrammiert hätten - ohne "guardrails".
Die Menschheit ist kollektiv Dümmer als sich dies #IsaacAsimov im #TheCompleteRobot über viele Jahre hätte vorstellen können. Die Menschheit ist sogar Dümmer, als die einzige Spezie, die sich bislang global selbst die Lebensgrundlage entzogen hat: #Cyanobakterien im #GreatOcidationEvent...
@2ndStar@astronomy.social @mina
Some days, I could just jump off a cliff.
This reality is fast becoming an amalgamate of all the negative #utopias I read years ago:
#1984,
#Fahrenheit451,
#TheMatrix,
#SecondVariety,
#Wargames, #TheCompleteRobot, #Terminator including its #Skynet,
#Robocop,
#DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep? (#Bladerunner),
and
#TheHandMaidsTale.
Hopefully, we are not also heading for #TheMinorityReport already (#AGI?)
These are only the ones out of the top of my head.
(2/n)
...I know, I am sounding alarmist, but having read/seen much #ScienceFiction, all the necessary ingredients for an #ExtinctionLevelEvent (#ELE] for #humanity are in place.
Just as a teaser: unquestionably, most of the world's endangered species could be rescued if the #HomoSapiens were no longer at the top of the #FoodChain...
No #ZerothLaw, and a #Bing-empowered, freed #ChatGPT could quickly arrive at this conclusion...
Now, after heaving read #TheCompleteRobot,...
I've resumed reading The Complete Robot ("Nous les robots" in French) a few days ago to wait while my car was being serviced 🤖
And since then, I can't stop reading 😀
