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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don <g@crcomp.net> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Frankenstein Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 14:43:22 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 55 Message-ID: <20240708a@crcomp.net> References: <20240703a@crcomp.net> <g6hd8jdv4kst5qjfvqu5neupbbopa11tu4@4ax.com> <v67oba$34gok$2@dont-email.me> <v69s7u$9k3$1@panix2.panix.com> <37a5f5df-a809-9c5d-9c7b-2a458a1575d4@example.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8stipulation Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:43:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c68df867e92723aed2423a2ec00feda0"; logging-data="971781"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19JLKX86gnu5S0L+07Wugic" Cancel-Lock: sha1:92WSc7uIzZSBv+YZbXe0+yfn32A= Bytes: 3060 D wrote: > Scott Dorsey wrote: <snip> >> I liked it when I read it at age 14. It was mostly filled with long >> digressions about the nature of life, which I found interesting although >> I might find them less novel today. And it was not a large book. >> --scott >> > > Hmm, maybe I will read it again. It was more than 20 years ago that I read > it so it would be interesting to see how it has aged. Given all the > AI-hysteria I think it fits nicely with the spirit of the times. ;) poets are the "unacknowledged legislators of the world." - Mary Shelley's husband Percy. Hyperbolized hysteria's in the heart of the beholder. Transhumanist Ray Kurzweil seems smitten with Singularity in a style somewhat similar to _Rapture of the Nerds_ (Doctorow & Stross). Though Dr. Hinton is impressed with Mr. Kurzweil's prediction that machines will become smarter than humans by the end of the decade, he is less taken with the idea that the inventor and futurist will live forever. <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/technology/ray-kurzweil-singularity.html> The _Washington Post_ has been joined at the hip with her sister paper, the NYT, ever since the publication of the Pentagon Papers. They have a gentlemen's (or lady's if you like) agreement to coordinate front pages with each other. Anyhow, the NYT's sister sneaks in a small snark about Kurzweil's IQ: Perhaps the shape rotators [such as Kurzweil] are convinced that computers can outthink us because their own minds are so impoverished. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/06/26/singularity-nearer-ray-kurzweil-review/> Then there's this guy, who's mad as hell and isn't going to take it any more: <https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/> Danke, -- Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God. tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.