Charlie Stross

@Soyweiser What is “king of the hill”? TV/cinema or some other visual entertainment?

@dgerard Not to worry; the promotion of incel bullshit via social media algorithms will generate increasing demand for sexbots by and by …

@HedyL Generally people who want a mechanical horse don’t fantasize about fucking it … the main techbro use case for humanoid robots is “sexbot”, so they don’t have to learn all the emotional skills you need in order to have a relationship with an actual human being.

@dgerard What fascinates me is *why* coders who use LLMs think they’re more productive. Is the complexity of their prompt interaction misleading them as to how effective the outputs it results in are? Or something else?

@gerikson @sneerclub I knew Iain and he absolutely despised Musk. (Yes, even back before 2011 Musk was on his radar.) Iain was a socialist with zero patience for capitalist exploiters.

@V0ldek This is a hill I will die on: the passive voice ABSOLUTELY does not belong in a work of fiction. (Academic papers and reports are another matter entirely, but fiction: no.)

@bitofhope @techtakes Surely you need a PDP-9 for that?