HistoPol, 1 month ago

@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535

#Dystopias #SciFi

(5/5)

...phalanx of prime negative #utopian, I think (and once had a list of in a Mastodon post,) in particular #TheMatrix, and Asimov's #TheCompleteRobot.
(There are some others I mentioned in this thread/convo of mine, https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109894787077782438).

[If I find that list again, I'll post an update right here.]

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HistoPol, 1 month ago

@atomicpoet
Probably, but I couldn't resist. 😉

In fact,
@mina and I, as well as many others, just had an interesting discussion about my all-time favorite #SciFi saga, #Dune, including its remake. 🤜🤛

For me, #TheCompleteRobot, though technically not a saga, is in 2nd place, followed closely by #BattlestarGalactica, not the original series getting the bronze metal jointly with #Foundation.

However, regarding scope, there is nothing that beats #PerryRhodan, the biggest series ever.

HistoPol, 5 months ago

@danimo @human_with_piano

(1/2)

Das Potenzial ist rießig.

Gestern oder heute kam eine Meldung das "rogue programmers" LLM's umprogrammiert hätten - ohne "guardrails".

Die Menschheit ist kollektiv Dümmer als sich dies #IsaacAsimov im #TheCompleteRobot über viele Jahre hätte vorstellen können. Die Menschheit ist sogar Dümmer, als die einzige Spezie, die sich bislang global selbst die Lebensgrundlage entzogen hat: #Cyanobakterien im #GreatOcidationEvent...

@2ndStar @mina

HistoPol, 11 months ago

@GottaLaff

Some days, I could just jump off a cliff.

This reality is fast becoming an amalgamate of all the negative #utopias I read years ago:

#1984,
#Fahrenheit451,
#TheMatrix,
#SecondVariety,
#Wargames, #TheCompleteRobot, #Terminator including its #Skynet,
#Robocop,
#DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep? (#Bladerunner),
and
#TheHandMaidsTale.
Hopefully, we are not also heading for #TheMinorityReport already (#AGI?)

These are only the ones out of the top of my head.

HistoPol, 11 months ago

@cautionwip @the_etrain @wikipedia

(3/4)

...reading of #Asimov's #TheCompleteRobot was too long ago. Don't know whether he featured any organical #androids.

"...the clearest example of this is John #Brunner's 1968 novel Into the Slave #Nebula, where the blue-skinned #android slaves are explicitly shown to be 👉fully human👈.[35]..." might be another example.

I haven't read this book, but it review on #Goodreads sounds intriguing: "It was carnival time..."

HistoPol, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

(10/10)

The #NegativeUtopias/#Dystopias that I think are becoming, or already have become in some countries, a reality are:

#Automata
#TheMatrix,
#SecondVariety,
#Wargames, #TheCompleteRobot, #Terminator including its #Skynet,
#Otherworld
#Robocop,
#DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep? (#Bladerunner),
#TotalRecall,
#WestWorld,
#1984,
#Fahrenheit451,
#LogansRun
#BraveNewWorld,
#Gattaca,
#ChildrenOfMen
#Friday,
#TheMinorityReport, and
#TheHandmaidsTale.

HistoPol, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago)

@simon @annaleen

(2/n)

...I know, I am sounding alarmist, but having read/seen much #ScienceFiction, all the necessary ingredients for an #ExtinctionLevelEvent (#ELE] for #humanity are in place.

Just as a teaser: unquestionably, most of the world's endangered species could be rescued if the #HomoSapiens were no longer at the top of the #FoodChain...
No Zeroth Law, and a #Bing-empowered, freed #ChatGPT could quickly arrive at this conclusion...

Now, after heaving read #TheCompleteRobot,...