Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoGenerative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square204linkfedilinkarrow-up1786
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minus-squareSergio@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agofwiw Ender’s Game was published in 1985. (Based on a short story from 1977, but that story didn’t have that subplot with Peter and Valentine.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender’s_Game_(short_story)
minus-squareMasterBlaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoThanks for that. I’m not sure where I got the idea. It was from the early 70s.
minus-squareSergio@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoI bet we could find some story in the New Wave of science fiction that presaged influencers. Bug Jack Barron comes close (though it’s about a talk show host). I’m a little skeptical of the idea that science fiction predicts things, tho. If you have a million stories out there, one of them’s bound to resemble whatever you’re claiming it predicted.
fwiw Ender’s Game was published in 1985. (Based on a short story from 1977, but that story didn’t have that subplot with Peter and Valentine.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender’s_Game_(short_story)
Thanks for that. I’m not sure where I got the idea. It was from the early 70s.
I bet we could find some story in the New Wave of science fiction that presaged influencers. Bug Jack Barron comes close (though it’s about a talk show host).
I’m a little skeptical of the idea that science fiction predicts things, tho. If you have a million stories out there, one of them’s bound to resemble whatever you’re claiming it predicted.