Post #2887257

2026-05-13 21:09 UTC

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

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@waderoberts@aus.social 2026-05-14 02:47

@Hammerwell@troet.cafe @ZhiZhu@newsie.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr LLMs are explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincters forged of silicon, and only rudimentary carbon variants appear to find them impressive.

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@eljorgeabides@mastodon.world 2026-05-14 02:50

@Hammerwell@troet.cafe @ZhiZhu@newsie.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr reminds me of the short nove The Variable Man https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32154

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@dresstokilt@mastodon.social 2026-05-14 03:49

@Hammerwell@troet.cafe @ZhiZhu@newsie.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I clicked the Translate button and the AI identified this as German and changed the emdash to an endash to present it to me in English. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social 2026-05-14 08:41

@Hammerwell@troet.cafe @ZhiZhu@newsie.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Who's all in for the Butlerian Jihad?

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