Post AtRuRUKFqFuE54dmt6 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
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 (DIR) Post #AtRuRMRl8T9he25fTU by halfempty@sfba.social
       2023-11-06T01:28:53Z
       
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       @Nickiquote  The term "grok" comes from "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein, not Hitchhiker's Galaxy. Musk is just showing that he's trying too hard to be sci-fi literate while proving he's ignorant.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtRuRNeud3GrP7FgcC by Nickiquote@mstdn.social
       2023-11-06T01:34:11Z
       
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       @halfempty Fundamentally, he does not know where his towel is.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtRuRQ5vZa4KxTuI08 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
       2023-11-06T18:27:41Z
       
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       @halfempty @Nickiquote exactly. If you were doing a Heinlein reference you'd call it Mycroft (from Moon is a Harsh Mistress) or Minerva (from Time Enough For Love). But Musk is basically Vroomfondel, making money on the chatshow circuit predicting what AI will do.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtRuRRU4PIyVGeD5Gq by Nickiquote@mstdn.social
       2023-11-06T19:16:34Z
       
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       @KevinMarks @halfempty Elon’s just this guy, you know?
       
 (DIR) Post #AtRuRUKFqFuE54dmt6 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
       2023-11-06T20:36:23Z
       
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       @Nickiquote @halfempty You know, I think what he is  really building is the copy of the Total Perspective Vortex in Zarniwoop's pocket universe that is only there to serve his ego.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtRuRbOPZCOFzzdhq4 by Nickiquote@mstdn.social
       2023-11-05T22:55:59Z
       
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       The Hitchhiker’s Guide was famously written by correspondents like Ford Prefect. It wasn’t an #AI that made shit up based on some random sub-ether drivel. As a result, it was useful.God, #DouglasAdams would have fucking hated #ElonMusk.Curiously enough, an edition of The Guide that fell through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the executive board of X as “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came”.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtRuRcbv2SmzmAy0X2 by CrypticMirror@mstdn.social
       2023-11-05T23:12:37Z
       
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       @Nickiquote Sounds like the version of the Guide from #MostlyHarmless, when it had been corrupted and subverted, and eventually led to the destruction of Earth. Elon is just speedrunning the whole corruption and downfall thing, isn't he.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtRuRdwA6gZltFRgiu by Nickiquote@mstdn.social
       2023-11-05T23:16:28Z
       
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       @CrypticMirror I was just thinking of Mostly Harmless, with the Vogons buying the Guide from Megadodo for that purpose, much like Musk bought Twitter. Adams at his most depressed turns out to be the most prophetic.