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Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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Funny, just today I talked with a co-worker about how be both feel like we are approaching Idiocracy. His nephew 'watered' their plants with Coke. Not quite Mountain Dew, but also not far off.

Why would he water plants with Coke? Coke doesn't have electrolytes, and that's what plants crave.

Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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The profusion of LLMs with secret weights and prompts will also give us the The Truman Show's false-friendships, product placement, and fraudulent recommendations.

Without also making us famous or taking care of our daily needs.

Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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post #11
post #8

Funny, just today I talked with a co-worker about how be both feel like we are approaching Idiocracy. His nephew 'watered' their plants with Coke. Not quite Mountain Dew, but also not far off.

Why would he water plants with Coke? Coke doesn't have electrolytes, and that's what plants crave.

It's a liquid. It's fine. Plus it's colored, so it must be more than water. Water is transparent. What can it contain? d'uh.

Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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post #9

"A character is literally named 'Upgraydd' with creative spelling. In the future, names have become increasingly absurd — just random syllables, product names, and numbers." Upgraydd was from our time wasn't he

Yes he was. Or maybe he was a Nick Landian AI from the future facilitating its own creation

Re: Are We Idiocracy Yet?

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post #9

"A character is literally named 'Upgraydd' with creative spelling. In the future, names have become increasingly absurd — just random syllables, product names, and numbers." Upgraydd was from our time wasn't he

He was! Frito Pendejo (Joe's lawyer) and the cop Beef Supreme are better examples. Or of course the wrestler-president Camacho whose middle name is literally Mountain Dew.
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