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Horus175
"Don't trust it if you don't know where it keeps its brain." - Arthur Weasley
TheMoonBnuuy
This goes for more than AI.
A certain bloviating shit bag comes to mind.
mdevil
He's right https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ZzVpM2kzYnZhZHplMzlqbm5kdGdkZnN5NnRldnd5bmNlOXVrdTB6ZSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/MdXl4KwZogSzAn6Xx4/200w.webp
SlavaUkrainisaysSteveBuscemi
yokwe
That is also my attitude towards former humans who work in finance.
SuperfluousMeh
Never trust a toaster. I won't even have a toaster in my house. It's a toaster oven and I can see it ... at all times.
lonelyrangerofthedreams
You people seem to really not understand the real problem and danger is within AI.
The problem is EXACTLY because IT IS HUMAN that is dangerous.
We are a shit race of “intelligent”, emotional, selfish, violent creature designing an intelligence based on our experience of the world.
What kind of byproduct you think we can get?
Lugh314159
I know Rowling is a POS, but she did occasionally write a good line. I can't help but think of Arthur Weasley: "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
rubypilgrim
*
VinnyVeritas
I urge you all to apply those exact same rules to MAGA
Sechran
"... that is going to be Human and isn't yet..."
What's that you say? Chop Pinocchio into kindling before the final act? You got it Mr. Lewis!
textilelover
No, he said keep your eye on it and you hand on your hatchet. So watch it closely, not just leap to the conclusion that it's a threat and should be chopped up.
HunglikeaHamster
Didn't you learn anything from "the sorcerer's apprentice" ? You'd end up with hundreds of Pinocchios..
khety1890
What a great poem
thotterpop
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ZXpyaTY0OGYxdHh5aDlsbWRzanRvNWVrbjBwYnZsbDdydGVhZDFwaSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3oz8xWJjJsueSJLydW/200w.webp
rubypilgrim
*stands protectively in front of Lt. Commander Data
cullingg
and Frankenstien's monster
KleptoKea
This is brilliant.
ATLandNerdy
Do not quote the old magics to me, witch, I was there when they were written
LeifHietala
That's Mr. Beaver speaking to Peter, if I recall.
Antifalalalala
The Uncanny Valley
Antifalalalala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Crimsonfotana
AI is shit.
CelestialSea
LLMs aren't a path to artificial intelligence. AI is just a buzz-word the industry is using. Actual computer scientists who know their shit say we're already at the limit of its abilities. It is structurally incapable of actual intelligent thought.
Aranon1183
I want to be ravashed by Lion Jesus!
jlist
This is true, but people sitting around making quotes about AI and not at least using it to do stuff in their own lives are probably going to have a problem 10 or 20 years down the line. You could at least roll your sleeves up and see what ChatGPT might be good for.
Nemrodh
Here lies the problem. Its not what good can come from ai.. its how much corporations will alter and bend it to there will. All with zero regard to the rest of humanity. IE they will use it to enslave us and murder those that don't bend the knee.
FlintNorth44
Wasn't CS Lewis a religious nutjob?
JasonThorn
If that's your term for "man of faith," then sure, whatever triggers your siren.
ATLandNerdy
I don't know about nutjob, but the whole Lion Witch and Wardrobe series was Christian allegory
Pieccentric
I stick to Frank Herbert's Dune: "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." - then the Butlerian Jihad happened, a universe-wide fight to free the world from any machine capable of computing, after which the core commandment became "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.".
deathmagiks
Just don't look too deeply into his personal life...
philogogus
Some of those later books got truly disturbing. Like explicit child rape scenes.
deathmagiks
Were those by him or his son? And yeah... the guy definitely had an extreme case of... like a cross between white savior complex and orientalism but for the middle east.
philogogus
It was Chapterhouse: Dune so it was Frank Herbert. His sons books are absolutely unreadable trash.
Pieccentric
I won't.
I generally do not jusge art (and literature can be art) by its artist.
And if the artist turns out to be worse than Hitler, do not worry, I'll pirate it so they won't profit from it.
Zeterai
(If this seems familiar it's because it was ripped 1:1 to 40k by Games Workshop, like 80% of the rest of Dune.)
Andunistar
Oh games workshop is ficking awefull about ripping off other works. It's central conflict with chaos and it's 6 pointed star running amock across reality is why they still put little dedications to micheal moorcock in their books.
tentacularfleshscape
8 pointer star, but sure
Andunistar
It's five in the mourning and I'm on shift with some hospice people and dealing and an ocular migrain. I swear to God 8 points ran through my head before I typed that.
tentacularfleshscape
Don't gotta justify, all good. In similar boat, best of luck with your shift
FiftyShadesOfTiramisu
And Frank Herbert in turn was heavily inspired by Asimov’s Foundation series, where humanity also comes to reject intelligent machines.
Zeterai
They pulled from both. The religious view of technology is definitely pulled from Foundation - the Omnissiah taking the place of The Galactic Spirit - but things like the literal prescient God-Emperor and Guild Navigators are 100% taken from Dune.
Honestly it's a shorter list of things GW didn't shamelessly rip off than the things they did, and it's why they're so ridiculously litigious. They know what they did, and assume others want to do it to them.
wejustdontknow
And treat yourself to a little Turkish delight from an ice queen once in a while.
Idontneedrealfacts
blech, no thank you.
wejustdontknow
Good homemade Turkish delight is pleasant. Bad, packaged Turkish delight is like eating powdered glue blobs.
PirateArrrgument
You are now addicted to opium.
Elonth
The most unbelievable thing about the Chronicles of Narnia is that turkish delights are good enough to betray your family for.
I've had them...they are...the most pathetic over hyped desert I have ever had.
LiloPleo
It’s hard to find the good stuff, fresh and home made, but it is delicious!!!
InitHello
You must have bought the kind without heroin.
Elonth
You are the second person to refrence Turkish Delights and drugs. I cannot find any historical evidence that they use to have drugs...but like Coke is literally called coke because it use to have cocain in it. Shit was wild back then. Now we are fighting microplastics. Anywho would love to know more about it unless this is like C.S. Lewis refrencing some sort of drug addiction into his literature in some "bs english psychology deconstruction by my whackjob professor."
InitHello
I think they may have been a *metaphor* for drugs, though I'm also not aware of the candies themselves ever containing drugs. Maybe they were a metaphor for sin, considering Lewis' beliefs in that area. I know when I was young, the religious leaders around me would claim that even a supposedly mild "sin" would draw someone into deeper and wilder depravities.
Swordguy
Now put yourself into the headspace of a quasi-autistic 10 year old who has been living on, not just awful 1940 British food, but 1940 British *WW2 RATIONING food*, who has probably not had a single sweet or even strong tasting foodstuff for over a calendar year...and then imagine the taste sensation of a piece of magically-created Turkish Delight that is created in as perfect a form and taste as it is possible for Turkish Delight to possibly be.
Then re-evaluate your incorrect opinion.
Elonth
re-evaluating that you are weak willed and a traitor to your famliy waiting to happen maybe.
All of that was taken into account. No temporary treat is worth betraying your family to the deaths.
Arenlor
So, why not a box of chocolates or something. The way it's presented in the book is that it's so good it's addictive.
ransomee
CS Lewis was a masochist, duh
ChazzK
It's the same culture that would come to call black pepper "spicy" and boiled basically everything at the time. When you've got nothing, it's amazing how small "fantastical" dreams can be.
BHPaperstacks
Because after the year of no sweets an actual piece of Kinder chocolate would have turned him into a full blown nazi.