Charles Stross
British science fiction writer (Accelerando, the Laundry Files), based in Edinburgh; a pharmacist and programmer before writing full time.
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Propranolol is not an anxiolytic; people need better monitored access to benzodiazepines.
Their wordsIt is NOT an anxiolytic, people really need better monitored access to BZPs (the 1990s moral panic).
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Harry Potter is jejune and clichéd, recycling tropes that were already tired by the 1950s.
Their wordsIt is my considered opinion that, all consideration of bigotry aside (both the texts and the authors), Harry Potter is jejune and clichéd, remixing and recycling tropes that were already tired by the 1950s.
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Their wordsBut p-Zombies are real, and LLMs are machines for turning people who outsource their cognitive functioning to "AI" into p-Zombies.
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Their wordsI long for a back-to-basics web: Markdown for text, JPEG images, no video, no Javascript or other client-side scripting, writable by a human being with a text editor. Make it as advertising/corporate hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small*.
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Any mechanism that strips civil rights from one group will eventually be turned against everyone.
Their wordsif a mechanism exists to deprive ANY group of civil rights—no matter how reviled they are, and by however many—then that mechanism WILL eventually be weaponized against YOU.
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Their wordsI think once the AI bubble pops we're going to see a wave of private equity leveraged mergers among cash-poor tech sector firms. Who will then fail to build anything new, or even hold onto their users, because they've forgotten how to build products customers want and *we've already got enough*.
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Their wordsIt never ceases to amaze me how today's techbros' vision of the future they want defaults to fully automated leopard-face-chomping neo-feudalism rather than fully automated luxury gay space communism.
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Their wordsBezos is taking an assumption as an axiom—that economic growth is both desirable and possible. He's almost certainly wrong about at least one of those things. (We're already close to peak population, heading for global decline by 2100. Without population growth economic growth is problematic.)