Maybe ai hallucinations are the first sign of true ai

Nope. They just show how far away we are from true AI.

I was thinking more about the villains of The Net.

Amazing. I’m not willing to exercise the permanent sacrifices that having kids entails.

Pretorians.

Stranger has a point where you can feel in your body the whiplash of the change in tone. After the middle point Heinlein was blocked for years, and when he continued the result was grotesque.

When you start reading dialog about what happens in Heaven, when the story started as proper sf, you know that the author lost the plot (literally and figuratively).

Solid choices.

Your “best of sf” doesn’t include many recognized classics. That’s weird. No LeGuin, no Bester?

I thought the idea was that the answers were to be provided by others. After all, the community is called AskLemmy, not Soapbox.

People riot

It depends on the country, I’d say.

over less

What is “less” for you?

Something like this would cause me a deep depression in month.

That’s precisely my point: Reading more (specially fiction) gives you additional situations, context and ways to face different situations, as well as vocabulary, to help you express yourself when needed.

Dyslexia, anxiety, poor education, not being a native speaker, ADHD, etc.

That “etc.” certainly includes living in an anti-intellectual society full of emotionally stunted people who learned that men shouldn’t care about feelings and that reading is for dorks.

what if I can’t put my feelings into words?

Read more. Then, write more.

It can be very hard to find the right words a lot of the time.

That can be, in many cases, because you don’t read enough to have learned the proper words to express yourself. Maybe you’re even convinced that reading isn’t worth it.

If this is the case, you don’t have anything worth saying. Better stay silent.

You mean Forgejo?

I think he was very polite, considering.

That current “AI” is not turning into Skynet any time soon.

I knew my first long distance gf on ICQ. I remember also having that service in Miranda IM along Yahoo Chat, MSN, Google Chat (back when it was based on XMPP) and Jabber.

Messages from my current gf are announced with the classic ICQ “Uh-oh!”.

It is when the people tends to give more credence to entities that appear sentient and to have agency.

Many worthy things are difficult.