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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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Here here! well said!
Many dystopian science fiction books have already become reality. Look at "Enemy of the State" for example.
Heck, back in like what 1971? Enders game predicted the whole internet Influencer concept.
fwiw Ender's Game was published in 1985. (Based on a short story from 1977, but that story didn't have that subplot with Peter and Valentine.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game_(short_story)
Thanks for that. I'm not sure where I got the idea. It was from the early 70s.
I bet we could find some story in the New Wave of science fiction that presaged influencers. Bug Jack Barron comes close (though it's about a talk show host).
I'm a little skeptical of the idea that science fiction predicts things, tho. If you have a million stories out there, one of them's bound to resemble whatever you're claiming it predicted.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/here-here-vs-hear-hear/
Voice to text strikes again!
Ah, got it! I can remove the link or leave it up for others' reference. Let me know if you have a preference.
If you want, it's no skin off my back. This whisper voice to text that I have on my Android is working pretty well, but there will be similar errors in the future.
So far it's the best one I've found. I don't have to specify punctuation or anything. Basically what you're reading is exactly what it came out with. It beats the keyboard, which for some reason keeps putting C's and V's where I put spaces, and I have to go back and modify everything.
In that case I'll leave it because it may help someone else. Cool about the Android voice to text. Do you mean you can whisper and it works?
wisper is the name of the ai/tech that drives the translation. there are implementations for other platforms. i got one on Linux, but haven't really used it yet. it does work when there are other noises in the room.
This is an example of me using it in a noisy bar. The first paragraph was typed because I wasn't sure it would work. But it works fine.
Cool, thank you!