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Not one original idea from these bozos.
Not one original idea from these bozos.
I mean there's equally no evidence humans can't shit themselves so hard that they take off in flight for a moment, if that's our standard of proof.
I'll make the pitch deck -- Y Combinator won't know what hit 'em!!
Zuckerberg read it and somehow the Metaverse is what he got from it?
At least Sergey and Larry lifted Google Earth outta it.
without Snow Crash we'd have no Second Life
We had Larry Niven's "Dream Park" 11 years prior in 1981, the idea was floating around.
Larry Nivened so that Neal could Stevenson.
this is active worlds erasure
Everyone loves the metaverse in that, lmao
It's a great book, but the Metaverse only makes sense bc the real world is hellish and spending time socializing there isn't safe.
Me too.
You can't argue with Reason.
You absolutely cannot argue with Reason.
Though Reason sometimes crashes and needs to be rebooted, as it’s still in beta testing.
They'll listen to Reason- even though you know those lines are coming, it's so enjoyable when they do
One basilisk viewing later, I'm completely
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
NO CARRIER
Oh actually I read that thread, he said to someone else that he had never read it but now he's going to, so keep an eye on him for the next few months for any new stolen ideas lmfao
Snow Crash is cool because of the swordfighting and the pizza mafia
sort of like how exposure to the writings of Ayn Rand during adolescence can cause someone to become a complete asshole
No evidence because you can't prove a negative, but also no reason to think it would work that way because brains do not work the same way as artificial neural networks. 🤦♀️
"So you concede that there's no evidence?"
I mean...playing the Barney the Dinosaur song over and over at Abu Graib?
“An artificially constructed sensory input that makes you go insane forever.” Religion?
it used to be that if you wanted to find an artificially constructed sensory input to drive you insane forever you'd have to go to the special collections library at miskatonic u.
i like the thumbnail cropping because i could imagine its about how your brain short-circuits when its snowing
I remember the first time I watched Pontypool, too
And a strikingly high percentage of them come from that one book!
Really makes OP's claims that he never read it smell like hogwash
Could be. That book was a long time ago at this point, and it's not an unobvious point from that crowd. Remember Altman's stochastic parrot comments - they like to answer AI criticisms with "brain go brrr too" stuff.
Someone has not Seen the Ring, and is apparently not a fan of The Entertainment either.
those things don't exist.
sleep deprivation and constant loud noise do, though.
Even older that snow crash! It has been known for millennia that there are ways to drive people insane! This is such a trivial observation
