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gotta say, douglas adams prepared me better for our absurd future than isaac asimov. like, spending hours explaining to a replicator AI how to make an excellent cup of tea, only to have the AI then lock up 100% of the ships computers resources mid-battle as it tries to comply with the request, that does seem like an increasingly more plausible scenario than a scientist planning a techno cult centuries in advance to prevent a great calamity
@lritter Don't forget Stanislav Lem: in "Ananke" he exercises what happens when an AI is trained by someone not up to the task - in essence a teardown of "AI is not biased".
@slowtiger yeah i won't throw shade on lem. his fables for robots alone are just fantastic.
@lritter Most amazing for me is that he wrote a whole bunch of groundbreaking stuff already in the 50's.