#userworldproblems

And is too big to fail, probably buying up or starving out any competitor that's successful enough to seem like a threat

And it occurred to me

If the MCP is really "mirroring" any User

It's probably Encom itself.

His absorbing of other programs is just a habit of hostile takeovers.

If a corporation was a person.

narrator: not simple. still a complex society. not claiming they're perfect. don't know exactly what they're like, just that they're happier than us.

narrator: we have a bad habit of considering happiness as something rather stupid

narrator: (continues into one of the longest paragraphs I have ever seen, all about postulating possible ways the happy society of Omelas could be structured. Periodically breaks the fourth wall, to check in with the reader about whether they consider it plausible now)

narrator: (seems to realize that the reader still isn't buying it, because we're still hampered by our view of happiness as "something rather stupid." Realizes our minds are still going, "can't be real, it's too good")

narrator: (introduces the whole child-torture plot element)

narrator: (devotes rest of story to insisting that the child torture is absolutely necessary to the happiness of the people)

narrator: (never explains a single detail of how or why. Makes absolutely sure that this element of the story, practically speaking, is much more implausible than anything else suggested so far.)

readers: (come out of this story, inevitably, with our minds focused on the idea that a good, happy society necessarily requires some people's suffering… and perhaps on the question, "is this really true?")

Author of "Those who Walk Away from Omelas": (also said, "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.")

Anyway, my last post had 2 F-bombs

so it's beyond PG-13 and is now R-rated, no one under 17 is allowed to see it without an accompanying parent

wonder how soon this is gonna be enforced.

It's Large Language Model

Don't you call it AI

It's a Large Language Model 

And if you ever see

A Large Language Model 

That gives you the illusion that it works 

... that's nobody's business but the Turks

it's simple. Duh. God is loving, but not for humans or animals, ok.

God loves plants.

The rest of us are, at best, annoying garden pests he can't get rid of

Who did god give near-limitless regeneration ability, and the power to make food from nothing but air and light and water, and to have thousands of offspring painlessly and without ever having to even leave home? Not animals or humans that's for damn sure

So much of the Bible makes more sense in this context. Why did humans get cast out of Eden? For 1. eating a plant they didn't have permission to eat, and 2. mutilating another plant to make clothes. (Note that God immediately replaced the fig-leaf clothes with clothes made from animal skins. Because fuck them animals. plants are God's chosen ones)

Why did God favor Abel's sacrifice from his herd, but reject Cain's sacrifice from his crop fields? Take a wild guess

The flood. Noah's ark. God killed all the humans and animals except what would fit in a boat. Did he kill any plants? Nope! He made the plants all miraculously survive being under water for forty days! as soon as the water started to go down, there was that olive tree, ready to send Noah a little carrier pigeon saying I LIVED, BITCH, WHILE YOUR WHOLE SPECIES FUCKING DROWNED. (he interpreted it as a message of peace lmao)