• smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    4 months ago

    Do you have a link to that Iain M. Banks post?

    His work made me extremely optimistic about the future at a time where I really needed it, and is what got me to enroll in an AI-centered study course (thank fuck I dropped out and enrolled in something else).

    I have so many feelings on this.

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      4 months ago

      we’ve got a few Banks fans on our instance so it’s an ongoing conversation, but the most recent posts are here

      I enjoy Banks a lot and firmly believe he’d be here sneering with us if that were physically possible; it’s tragic that the rationalists and a number of AI fans have leaned into subverting the meaning of his work.

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        4 months ago

        Awesome, thanks!

        And yeah, for sure. If anything, those people want to be the GFCF from Surface Detail, not the Culture; they just want the shiny toys.