Back in the old Usenet days, access was mostly limited to dedicated professionals and hobbyists, who had over time developed a certain “netiquette”.

Every September, though, new students got Usenet access, unwittingly disturbing the peace and sowing chaos until they learned the proper way to speak and behave themselves.

Around late 1993 and early 1994, though, ISPs started providing Usenet access to their customers, flooding the network with an unending flow of inexperienced users most of which would never learn the proper ways. An eternal September, as it were. And thus the Internet was ruined.

Why can’t she have eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage?

And now for something completely different, here’s the sketch in question.

AI is still largely affected by garbage in garbage out.

Exactly. When it comes to code, for instance, what percentage of the training data is Knuth, Carmack, and similarly skilled programmers, and what percentage is spaghetti code perpetrated by underpaid and uninterested interns?

Shitty code in the wild massively outweighs properly written code, so by definition an LLM autocomplete engine, which at best can only produce an average of its training model, will only produce shitty code. (Of course, though, average or below average programmers won’t be able — or willing — to recognise it as shitty code, so they’ll feel like it’s saving them time. And above average programmers won’t have a job anymore, so they won’t be able to do anything about it.)

And as more and more code is produced by LLMs the percentage of shitty code in the training data will only get higher, and the shittiness will only get higher, until newly trained LLMs can only produce code too shitty to even compile, and there will be no programmers left to fix it, and civilisation will collapse.

But, hey, at least the line went up for a while and Altman and Huang and their ilk will have made obscene amounts of money they didn’t need, so it’ll have been worth it, I suppose.

That’s why you split the ship in two and spin the habitation module around the heavier part of the ship¹, connected by a tether, as in Project Hail Mary (which the video says is still too fast… so just make the tether longer).

1. Well, around their common barycentre, but you know what I mean.

Yeah, try it on someone else’s junk.

They have to sign a pact that they must not invest into AI anymore for a given amount of years (20+ minimum).

Problem is this might hurt actual AI research to punish a scam that has absolutely nothing to do with AI other than having coopted the name for marketing purposes.

(Any investment in actual AI research is doomed for decades anyway when this bubble pops, but this would cause even more harm than the bubble has already caused.)

(Also any form of research is probably ruined for decades anyway due to LLM-induced brain rot and having to sift through all the slop to try to recover any remaining fragments of actually useable knowledge, but, again, let’s not make it even worse than it already is).

Sure, he’s a shitty person who makes shitty comics, no one is denying that.

I’m just saying that you can separate the work from the author and interpret it however you want.

Unlike in the ones you posted, where the shitty message is obvious, I don’t know if the author intended the comic in the OP to have some shitty anti-LGBT message (though if he did he did a poor job of it, since I don’t see it); my interpretation of it is the one in my original comment (downvoted, I assume, by people with negative reading comprehension or idiots who think video games are actually harmful); as I said, when it comes to authors who turn out to be shitty people I think it’s better to ignore them and their intentions and appreciate the work for itself.

I mean, about 99% of people, including authors (in fact probably a higher percentage when it comes to authors), are horrible bastards, so if you can’t appreciate whatever good works they might have accidentally produced you’ll have a pretty thin selection to choose from.

Don’t support them and warn other people about their personal shittiness, sure, but don’t rip out your own eyes to avoid being offended.

I think playing with the body and especially the mind (through eugenics, genetic engineering, or any other means) is as big of a nono in the Star Trek universe as fascism, due to trauma from the eugenic wars (you know, when Khan and his ilk fought baseline humanity).

Body modification enthusiasts, transhumanists, furries, and anything like that are probably treated with fear, loathing, and disgust.

Heck, they won’t even treat baldness despite being perfectly able to fix it if they wanted to, and they don’t seem to have made any effort to cure aging, despite being able to cure almost everything else; their life expectancy isn’t much higher than ours, when it should be much higher.

You want that kind of thing try Iain M. Banks’ Culture series. Even more freedom to live your life however you want, the only limits to body modification are your imagination and some of the laws of physics (much less than in Start Trek, though), and people live to a healthy 300 or so, throw a party, and die in their own terms because they’re done, or curious. Or do not, no one is forcing them, they can keep on living if they want to.

Heck, one character used to have about sixty penises all over his body, just for fun. No more, though, even with four hearts at that point it was starting to get difficult to maintain an erection at the same time in all of them.

Death of the author and all that. Also something about a broken clock.

Some authors are shitty people, but as long as I’m not supporting them I don’t see why I can’t enjoy their work by itself, and my own interpretation of it.

I don’t know what this Jago intended this comic to mean, and, frankly, I don’t give a flying fuck. To me it reads as a criticism of the media’s (and by extension its zombies) penchant for blaming video games (and before that role playing games, and before that rock and other pop music) for every evil in society, when there are much more evident but less convenient causes, and that’s how I choose to interpret it.

Not exactly written the same, but in Catalan a cold with nose congestion is called a constipat or costipat (similarly constipado in Spanish).

Of course this can mean a very bad day¹ for you if you’re in an English speaking country and know some but not enough English, and, trying to find the right word, ask the nearest pharmacist for some over the counter medicine for your “constipation”.

More of an outright enemy than a false friend, really.

1. Blowing off both ends with every sneeze kind of bad, probably.

It’s Europe, just take the train.

Well, a particularly jarring one is the USA’s refusal to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Everyone else, including Israel, has ratified it, except them.

Because they want child labour, and to be able to keep executing children, and bombing schools, apparently.

Because it’s there.

Same here (I was never one of the cool kids, though).