Most of the stuff in Jules Verne’s books, even Paris in the Twentieth Century.

(Well, the moon gun would need to be a very long railgun, not a gunpowder cannon, if you want crewed capsules, but still.)

You’re not taking into account the fact that LLMs are an obvious dead end.

Once that bubble bursts it’ll take decades before anyone invests in AI research again and for anything attached to the term “AI” to not be seen as a scam (LLMs are obviously not AI or anything close, but they’re being sold as such and that’s what the term will be associated with), not to mention we’ll need decades to clean up all the LLM slop spillage before proper research of any kind can proceed.

What you said was valid before the well got poisoned.

Now it’s extremely unlikely we’ll survive long enough to get back on track.

LLM peddlers murdered the future, in the name of short term profits.

We were on track for it, but LLMs derailed that.

Now we’ll have to wait for the bubble to burst, which will poison the concept of AI (since LLMs are being sold as AI despite being practically the opposite) in the minds of both users and investors for decades.

It’d probably take a couple generations for any funding for AI research to be available after that (not to mention cleaning up all the LLM slop spillage from our knowledge repositories)… but by that time we’ll almost certainly be extinct due to global warming.

The LLM peddlers murdered the future for short term profits, and doomed us all in the process.

To this day I still can’t tolerate the smell of cigarette smoke.

It killed him in the end, of course, but we’d lost contact for several years by then. I wouldn’t be surprised if it kills me too, even though I haven’t directly smoked a cigarette in my life; my lungs definitely accumulated enough crap over my childhood to kill several grown men; couldn’t breathe properly until I was an adult.

That seems like a tripping powermod problem, not a user problem.

Users can block other users. Mods are unnecessary and harmful. A redundant point of failure.

EDIT: Oh, wait, if it’s the user doing it just block that asshole, it’ll save you the frustration.

It’s usually mods powertripping, though.

Because spez is a greedy little pigboy, that’s why.

Humanity.

Hey, I was a fucking kid, OK. I eventually learned.

Formatge.

No.

Fuck off with this shit.

Having to work for a living is more than monstrous enough without asshats trying to make it “fun”.

If you want to reward your employees give them better pay, and paid time off, and let them know you value their work (no bonuses or similar shit, though, that’ll cause even more stress than the horror of having to waste most of your life working already does; if you want to give them more money, give them a raise, no fucking strings attached; or even better, pay them the same in total but reduce their work hours, so they bring the same amount home at the end of the month without having to work as much).

Yes. My worldview, morals, and ethics were pretty much fully formed before I even started using the internet.

Maybe I would’ve been slightly less cynical and nihilist and depressed, but the world outside the internet has let me down a lot more than the internet, even accounting for enshittification, so probably not.

I would definitely have less interesting fetishes, though.

Dragon 32.

Sure, but they’re a minority. Millions, at most, out of billions. Probably less than that.

All modern LLMs are as good as professional mentalists at convincing most of their users that they know what they’re saying.

That’s what they’re designed, trained, and selected for. Engagement, not correctness.

But LLMs truly excel at making their answers look correct. And at convincing their users that they are.

Humans are generally notoriously bad at that kind of thing, especially when our answers are correct.

And if LLM don’t have the actual answer they blabbering like a redditor, and if someone can’t get an accurate answer they start asking forum and socmed.

LLM’s are completely incapable of giving a correct answer, except by random chance.

They’re extremely good at giving what looks like a correct answer, and convincing their users that it’s correct, though.

When LLMs are the only option, people won’t go elsewhere to look for answers, regardless of how nonsensical or incorrect they are, because the answers will look correct, and we’ll have no way of checking them for correctness.

People will get hurt, of course. And die. (But we won’t hear about it, because the LLM’s won’t talk about it.) And civilization will enter a truly dark age of mindless ignorance.

But that doesn’t matter, because the company will have already got their money, and the line will go up.

Yes, but search engines will serve you LLM generated slop instead of search results, and sites like Stack Overflow will die due to lack of visitors, so the internet will become a reddit-like useless LLM ridden hellscape completely devoid of any human users, and we’ll have to go back to our grandparents’ old dusty paper encyclopedias.

Eventually, in a decade or two, once the bubble has burst and google, meta, and all those bastards have starved each other to death, we might be able to start rebuilding a new internet, probably reinventing usenet over ad-hoc decentralised wifi networks, but we won’t get far, we’ll die in the global warming wars before we get it to any significant size.

At least some bastards will have made billions out of the scam, though, so there’s that, I suppose. 🤷‍♂️

I’d say it’s a tie between The Curse of Monkey Island and Wing Commander (1 and 2).

Reading the screen.

Seriously, about 90% of computer problems would be solved if people just read the fucking screen.

I am an adult!

Dying is such a pain…

The future rules!