Exatron

Farscape ended on a huge cliffhanger that the cast and crew thought would get resolved because they had a two season renewal. Unfortunately, Sci-f wanted to renegotiate the budget, there was some bad timing, egos got in the way, and the show was abruptly canceled when season 4 was nearly done filming.

Fan outrage, and a wealthy anonymous benefactor, did eventually lead to Peacekeeper Wars, but it was the cliffs notes version of what season 5 would have been.

The Sci-Fi channel canceling Farscape.

Hudson’s department stores. It was an upscale regional chain comparable to Macy’s or Marshall Fields. The buildings themselves still mostly exist, but the remaining ones got converted into Macy’s years ago.

Jesus Chrysler

Mine are both idiots in different ways.

Wish granted, kiddo.

There isn’t even a way to prove that a random symptom that occurs in your body may be from a vaccine. There is absolutely no way to know where it came from.

Yes there is, sweetie. It’s this thing called science.

This is shitposts, not shit takes.

At least he’ll be responsible for creating a gender neutral bathroom with his name on it.

Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bot.

He had a unique way with words. I sometimes wonder how he’d feel about having essentially predicted how AI turned out.

From Dirk Gently

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

In the book, an alien ship crashed on earth, the crew asked an electric monk if their ship was repaired. The monk responded that it believed it was, the aliens tried to take off, and then the ship exploded because it wasn’t actually repaired.

In Hitchhiker’s Guide, Genuine People Personalities were AIs that tended to be obnoxiously cheerful, neurotic, or hyperactive. Doors with a GPP would sigh with pleasure when they opened and loudly ask if they did a good job if someone told them to open quietly, for example.

A friend has compared generative AI to the electric monks from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective agency.

I’ve found that the AI chatbots feel a lot like the Genunine People Peronalities from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

These people understand Star Trek is fictional, often takes place on quasi-military vessels, and depicts a society that has some significant differences from our own, right?

I’d love for Spez to have the same experience I’m having with a kidney stone.

They almost certainly are. AIs will cheerfully tell them they’re geniuses with the best ideas ever instead of those pesky employees who say an idea won’t work and want things like pay, time off, etc.

Or Coco Chanel

Recall elections aren’t part of any elected federal offices, not just senators.

Selection of US senators was changed because having state governments pick them was prone to corruption.

If the midterm results are a 51-49 Democratic majority in the Senate, Fetterman switching parties would keep Republicans in charge.

The number drops even more when offensive words or phrases are removed. Nobody’s getting a license plate that reads P00 A55 or a bad word for black people.