feels uncomfortably close to the actual situation where the models keep getting better and the answer keeps being "not yet, ask again later" while the answer is getting ready years late
If you want good sci-fi a good list can be:
- Ender's Game
- The Martian + Project Hail Mary
- A Fire Upon the Deep
- Dune
(I second Ender's Game, The Martian, and Project Hail Mary.)
You may have already read his story The Library of Babel: https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...
A less commonly mentioned Asimov book that I really enjoyed and will read again is "The End of Eternity". If you've not read it, the ending is IMHO amazing and unique.
Last Question reminds me of it because of the style.
didn't know about ooo, maybe because it's not available on namecheap!
Boy, it sure would be nice if real LLMs were capable of giving an answer like that.
jasongill•56m ago
markus_zhang•53m ago
https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue4-8.h...
b3lvedere•3m ago
jihadjihad•34m ago
0: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
rationalist•25m ago
https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html
rationalist•29m ago
Way too many unlikely variables all lining up, and no other accounts of the story from all of the people (pilots, air traffic controller, etc) supposedly on the frequency.
actionfromafar•26m ago
rationalist•19m ago
A short anonymous joke that may or may not be true is better than a long story that is almost certainly made-up by someone in authority.
sebg•22m ago
PaulHoule•2m ago
So I'll post another article about robot grippers which you should upvote instead of the breathless "AI will give us more Nobel Prize winning research" posts because: (1) robots that can change bedpans and pick strawberries really will change the world, and (2) they give out a certain number of Nobel Prizes a year and AI won't change that.
[1] old issues of Byte magazine are a good bet: try https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-05