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An excerpt from God Bless You Mr. Rosewater. A reminder of what we’ve known all along:

‘Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.’ God Bless you Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut

#humanism #vonnegut #englishlit

Kurt Vonnegut once suggested that future historians would look back at the late 20th century and view television the way we view the lead in the water pipes that drove the ancient Romans mad.

With LLMs we're painting the inside of the lead pipes with radium.

Some people find it pretty I suppose.

And the folks selling radium paint are making a lot of money.

And in the end, isn't that what's really important?

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#AI #LLMs #Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut once suggested that future historians would look back at the late 20th century and view television the way we view the lead in the water pipes that drove the ancient Romans mad.

With LLMs we're painting the inside of the lead pipes with radium.

Some people find it pretty I suppose.

And the folks selling radium paint are making a lot of money.

And in the end, isn't that what's really important?

2/2

#AI #LLMs #Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut once suggested that future historians would look back at the late 20th century and view television the way we view the lead in the water pipes that drove the ancient Romans mad.

With LLMs we're painting the inside of the lead pipes with radium.

Some people find it pretty I suppose.

And the folks selling radium paint are making a lot of money.

And in the end, isn't that what's really important?

2/2

#AI #LLMs #Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut once suggested that future historians would look back at the late 20th century and view television the way we view the lead in the water pipes that drove the ancient Romans mad.

With LLMs we're painting the inside of the lead pipes with radium.

Some people find it pretty I suppose.

And the folks selling radium paint are making a lot of money.

And in the end, isn't that what's really important?

2/2

#AI #LLMs #Vonnegut

Eternal Sunshine and Slaughterhouse Five collide in Jonathan Carroll’s Mr. Breakfast

#bookstodon #Tattoo art #mysticism #folktale #retelling #AChristmasCarol #alternatereality #multiverse #StandUpComedy #Vonnegut #Kinsella #CharlieKaufman #GenieLamp #regret #choices #BookReview

https://borg.com/2023/02/17/eternal-sunshine-and-slaughterhouse-five-collide-in-jonathan-carrolls-mr-breakfast/