Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: "Destination Moon" (1949) - Worth Watching Date: 26 Mar 2026 21:42:21 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <3uGdnZtryc8c6yf0nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com> <20260325223255@news.eternal-september.org> <20260326084045.00006dd6@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net comm2b5oMhKq9GjdjsZQFQf8U1S6op2GqW40h/mOhNGSN+tigs Cancel-Lock: sha1:EFjJiEXHmodEYv1DP2mOF4tc2Os= sha256:1xoetq3YUTMUpWEGqe3GCHLy3VBO3M8NTbWj2ml+/sc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84145 On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:40:45 -0700, John Ames wrote: > More than the technological predictions, it's amazing how prescient it > was about the *sociologal* consequences; not just the lapse of humanity > into unthinking reliance on the Machine, the ensuing cultural atrophy, > and the resulting catastrophe when it stops (spoiler alert,) but the way > people become ideologically, almost *religiously* attached to it and > treat those who don't use it as anathema should be familiar to any- > one who's had to argue with an "AI" booster in the last few years. Having lived through four, or is it five, AI winters I don't bother. However I do deduct 20 IQ points from anyone who starts with 'I asked Claude...'. What bothers me is the implication that Clause is some sort of sentient entity that 'I googled' never had.