The internet being full of bullshit-on-purpose satirical humor killing AI because it can't distinguish between the satire and fact feels just like the cold virus killing the aliens in WAR OF THE WORLDS
I didn’t know this lore. I guess his version of the story is… maybe better than it sounds, in some but not all ways? But also maybe exactly as bad as it sounds? Confusing! Did people generally think he was Asian at the time or what?
They did and he didn't disabuse them of that. Everyone I knew at the time thought David Wong was an Asian man.
It was a minor bit of drama when the book came out but it didn't get enough attention for him to face any actual consequences.
After all of these years of Gens X through Z thinking that we were poisoning ourselves with irony, we discover that we were laying the groundwork to save the world. Take that, earnest enjoyment of existence!
It's not just choking on satire, though. It's choking on all the shitty click-harvesting sites that *stole* the satire from its original source, the sites that Google essentially brought into being over the past decade.
"Only sarcasm can stop AI! But where will we find a pure reservoir of sarcasm powerful enough?"
Gen X: *cracks knuckles* Well well well, I guess now everbody remembers us, don't they?
This is like one of those movies where they need a team of old fogeys to Do The Thing, because none of those Damn Kids know how.
“You can’t calculate the orbital vectors on your hand calculator! It wasn’t designed for that! You need this!” (Takes out slide rule)
And in most of the other 30% it regularly falls out of the sky.
If they'd just asked nicely for a bit of desert I'm sure we could have come up with an arrangement.
Lol, Humans and Mars.
Humans and Mars.
Our sci-fi aliens are just hyperfocused humanity.
Aliens whose spit dissolves stuff?
Aliens who die from lack of infection control?
Aliens who invade a world full of harmful toxin?
It’s all human behavior.
The power goes out in Northeast Ohio. An AI determines the problem with the blackout in Cleveland is a lack of energy, so it sends a hydrogen bomb, to release an enormous amount of energy in Cleveland.
This is also the exact scenario from Sense And Sensibility, a novel by Jane Austen, first published as an audio book in 1973. In the novel, an evil AI called Dashwood attempts to destroy all of humanity. However, a mouse called Willoughby manages to plant cheese inside its head, thus defeating it.
