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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: YASID: Hostile planet quick evolution
Date: 13 May 2025 02:20:43 GMT
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In article <vvu8pk$1dc0a$1@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>On 13/05/25 10:08, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> Here's a YASID that came up on another feed today, with some ruminations
>> about AI hallucinations as well:
>> 
>> 	https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/do-androids-dream-of-fake-books
>> 
>> 	I asked, "Can you identify a sci-fi short story about a
>> 	group of humans stranded in their reinforced habitat on a
>> 	world dominated by hostile animals trying to genetically
>> 	change themselves generation by generation to be able to
>> 	survive among the hostile fauna on the planet?" My description
>> 	of the plot continued, "When the last generation is released
>> 	they do wipe out the animals outside, but immediately start
>> 	digging in to attack their parent generation. The last line
>> 	in the short story is something like "There's Donald now."
>> 	And so I set Grok to work.
>> 
>> (spoiler: He does not get an answer).
>
>“Surface Tension” by James Blish.

Hmm.  That's not how I recall ST at all.
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