alt Hacker NewsI understand that this is kind of beside the point, but it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being. (Though since it is being powered by GenAI, which has also driven people to do bad things, perhaps it is an apt comparison.)
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At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel "Don't Create The Torment Nexus."
https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=e...
Why would that comparison be bad if it's accurate?
Also, "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Both can be made good and evil.
I thought that was part of the appeal of this. There's something spooky and ironic about it.
> it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being.
It's worked pretty well for Palantir?
I had to do a double take. They’re framing this comparison as a positive thing?!?
(On second thought, the LLM probably made up this analogy on its own, which... in a way, is even worse.)
That explains why the video was posted on X
Once/if we lose understanding of the tech it will become magic/haunted artifacts.
You hit on the point at the end… It’s not a bad comparison, it’s an apt one.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.