Dune is honestly probably the most frequently misinterpreted and misused text of the last hundred years like Goddamn that shit wasn't even subtext it was just text.

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It's so regressive. People get caught up in some weird "dignity of work" mindset. We should be trying to reduce people's toil! For every job that's fulfilling or genuinely provides transcendental value by being done by a human, there are a few dozen that just suck and are only done for the paycheck

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Vinge was a CS professor. He knew ball.

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Kind of stunned how many people in my mentions still believe that the point of Section 230 is that if you edit, you lose its protections. That's literally the exact opposite of why the law was written and the exact opposite of what courts have said. But tons of people here believe it. Weird.

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If a literary jury cannot distinguish supposedly AI written literature from prizeworthy human literature through the act of reading it, what exactly is the detector protecting?

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