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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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Greetings!

Roko called, just to say he's filed a trademark on Basilisk™ and will be coming after anyone who talks about it for licensing fees which will go into his special Basilisk™ Immanetization Fund and if we don't pay up we'll burn in AI hell forever once the Basilisk™ wakes up and gets around to punishing us.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Frankly one of the weakest Culture novels tho.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it did bring us Elon Veppers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember liking it a lot, but I need to start that read through all of Banks’ sci-fi sometime and see if it still holds up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So do I, it's been a while. I'll keep quiet about it though so I don't get comments like "oh it's those books that Musk and Bezos love!". Fuckers ruining SF for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

oh bezos tried to posthumously claim Banks too? musk saying he was a socialist because he liked the Culture novels still pisses me off, and the bad taste from the tech assholes in my life just nodding along to that probably contributed to me not returning to the novels

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a Consider Phlebas TV series in planning at Amazon, which was canned, thankfully.

Banks would have pissed all over these people (or rather written a non-M novel skewering them).

Anyway tech-adjacent people are terrible at SF, or the SF they like is terrible. Do NOT read any HN discussions of SF you like if you value your faith in humanity (but if you do, why are you reading HN???).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There was a Consider Phlebas TV series in planning at Amazon, which was canned, thankfully.

thank fuck. my faith in Amazon making anything but an embarrassing pseudo-adaptation was pretty much zero

Banks would have pissed all over these people (or rather written a non-M novel skewering them).

exactly, that’s why these assholes waited til he was dead to try and appropriate his work

Do NOT read any HN discussions of SF you like if you value your faith in humanity

the only value in sf discussions on the orange site is as material to sneer at on TechTakes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they are Veppers and think they're the Minds

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@dgerard @self Elon Veppers is how I'll refer to him henceforth.