On the other hand, the only reason this is getting any attention at all is precisely because she is Elon Musk’s girlfriend.
This is the second time I’ve see this “story” today. And until today, I don’t think I’d ever heard of her, and if anyone had asked me who “Grimes” was, I’d think they were talking about Frank Grimes from the Simpsons.
Oh, man, this thread makes me miss io9 when it was still a great place to discover new sci fi and fantasy. Every article about some new PK Dick adaptation would turn into the commentariat throwing out recommendations for some obscure author or filmmaker around a similar theme.
“Computers are literal-minded and stupid; electronic records aren’t really records … so it is good to be alert to opportunities to foul up the system.” – Robert Heinlein from the novel Friday
Seriously, the more I see non programmers and non compsci people chime in on AI the more I realize how little people know about what we don’t know in regards to intelligence or self-guided programs. So seeing folks think you can take humans out of the driver’s seat of economy is just amusing to me. All AIs will do is just turn everything into paperclips if given half a chance (mostly because humans are bad at figuring out requirements for programs).
That story has such a great descriptive passage of utter desolation. Always stayed with me since first reading it.
The area was wild. No human settlements existed for miles; the entire region had been seared flat, cauterized by repeated H-bomb blasts. Somewhere in the murky darkness, a sluggish trickle of water made its way among slag and weeds, dripping thickly into what had once been an elaborate labyrinth of sewer mains. The pipes lay cracked and broken, jutting up into the night darkness, overgrown with creeping vegetation. The wind raised clouds of black ash that swirled and danced among the weeds. Once an enormous mutant wren stirred sleepily, pulled its crude protective night coat of rags around it and dozed off.
No she’s in here 30s… As someone who looked like a teen well into her 30s, and had to deal with the double misgyny of not being taking serious because I looked young and was a woman, how about we don’t do that here?
Except we’ve fucked over our heartland turning it into factory farms, and the SW and west are fucked right now with a massive drought.
I’ll believe it when I see it. So far, the predictions have not borne any real fruit.