@Oggie Somewhat related: Bezos personally intervening to get more seasons of The Expanse, a show that’s heavy on the theme of “if a for profit company tries to get you to go to space don’t do it”
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 09:10:37 UTC Justin Pot -
Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 09:10:20 UTC Justin Pot "Grok" being the name for an AI chatbot is just the latest example of tech bros not understanding science fiction. In "Strangers In a Strange Land", the famous 1950's novel the term comes from, to "grok" something is to understand it on a deep level. AI chatbots, as we all know by now, do not grok—they bullshit.
I'm really tired of sci-fi terms being used by people who read the books and got nothing from them beyond “lol this word sounds cool”. (See also: “metaverse”.)