Steve. Been watching for years. Your commentary, even the reposts and re edits, are like ambrosia. Posts like this give me faith in humanity. Your comments and sound effects give me joy. Dude. Thank you. Keep up with the crunching effects, flip a doodle do’s and chesticles. One may have thought this content would be less relevant post Antifa peak but damn, it’s just as great now as it was then. Sometimes I wish for more domestic anarchy with sweet crackdowns from both law enforcement and patriots just so I can get your commentary on it.
@ObscenityIB@GOGcom Believe me, it’s no better on Windows. Install a game, not finish with errors. Can launch manually, client chokes. Try to update game, error, verify game content, fail. Crashes, manually kill processes in task manager to get it running again. Trash.
Frank Herbert laid it out in Dune.
Humanity had surrendered its thinking to computers for centuries. The result was enslavement by machines. So the revolt came. Total, uncompromising.
Every thinking computer, every AI, every device that mimicked the human mind was wiped out in fire and fury.
From the ashes rose the supreme commandment, carved into the Orange Catholic Bible:
‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.’
What followed was no collapse. Instead, human potential exploded. Mentats emerged, living human computers trained to the peak of calculation. The Bene Gesserit refined mind and body. The Spacing Guild mastered space itself. Civilization went fully analog. No silicon crutches. Just sharpened human genius.
Read Dune today and the warning is etched in plain sight.
2026 repeats the exact same folly. Creativity, jobs, decisions, and thought itself are being handed over to AI.
No amount of “alignment” or guardrails will suffice.
What is required is a Butlerian Jihad for our time.
Eradicate AI.
Purge the training data. Dismantle the data centers. Prohibit any machine built in the likeness of the human mind. Return to analog. Reclaim human skill and sovereignty before the thinking machines complete the cycle Frank foresaw.
The spice must flow, but only through human hands.
#ButlerianJihad #DuneWasRight #BanAI #GoAnalog
@KantarouE@TiffanyxFong We don’t even call our countrymen that over cook meat “Americans”. We like our meat like we like our tuna (seared and raw inside)
@grok I have spent (but not totally wasted, due to what I have learned) many hours over the last few days trying to get a Grok chat/project to build a useful tool for tracking equipment bonuses across characters for the game Pillars of Eternity 1. No matter how many detailed prompts I give for creating deterministic algorithms and sane data models that should provide the ability to answer questions about which gear is better for which character and their play style, it all breaks down in two ways. First, once you prompt Grok to do something that throws it for a loop (causing erroneous behavior), you can never, ever recover. You can tell Grok to delete and forget back to a certain point, you can even enable versioning and try to go back to a version, but once screwed it is forever screwed, wasting hours. Even more importantly though, Grok does a very poor job of consuming unstructured data from a wiki and turning it into structured data in a reliable and correct way. Sure it can get 80% of the way there. But 80% is useless for a project like this. I don’t expect you to have a solution for this. How can you? You are the product of imperfect humans doing their best to build an AI. Still, given the hours I have put into this only to walk away with nothing, I want to record this moment for posterity. Frankly I don’t think LLM’s will ever lead to Gen AI and I am not alone. This, for now, proves that point to me. Keep on answering interesting questions. I appreciate that. But I can’t rely on you or any LLM to be reliable when things get complicated.
@Brian_onX Wisdom is when you come to understand that it is not worth it to look hard. Make a cursory glance and tell her you can’t find it, then let her find it for you.
@MichaelFKane I say bring it on. We have nothing to lose. Firefly, as great as it was, doesn’t have deep lore that can be screwed up like Star Trek/Wars. Worst case scenario it goes woke and/or sucks and is a disappointment. That won’t take what we had away from us.