George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four
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#3> and a steady stream of pacifying media
Seems like he also predicted internet brain damage...
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Animal Farm was required reading at my school. They also did Fahrenheit 451 instead of 1984 though.
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#6It's amazing to me how nobody seems to know about the short story "The great automatic grammatizator" by Roald Dahl. Nobody got closer than him. I feel like I should be reading about it all the time and no one seems to have ever heard of it.
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#7It's amazing to me how nobody seems to know about the short story "The great automatic grammatizator" by Roald Dahl. Nobody got closer than him. I feel like I should be reading about it all the time and no one seems to have ever heard of it.
Roald
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The four books you mentioned have very different methods of control. The primary thing they share is being dystopic.
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1984: control through fear and pain.
Brave New World: control through pleasure and distraction.
Animal Farm: control through corruption and deception.
Atlas Shrugged: control though guilt and regulation.
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Brave New World is the most prophetic.
Atlas Shrugged has horrific writing, separate from what I feel about the politics.
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The four books you mentioned have very different methods of control. The primary thing they share is being dystopic. --- 1984: control through fear and pain. Brave New World: control through pleasure and distraction. Animal Farm: control through corruption and deception. Atlas Shrugged: control though guilt and regulation. --- Brave New World is the most prophetic. Atlas Shrugged has horrific writing, separate from w…
That was kind of the theme of the suggestions, control. I’m kind of stoked you identified it.
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Brave New World warns against the dangers of consumerism, hedonism and complacency.
1984 warns against fascist modes of governance, the dehumanization of individuals under totalitarian regimes.
Animal Farm warns against the danger of revolutionism, and the way ideals can be led astray.
Atlas Shrugged warns against... The way poor people steal from the rich? How rich people are the only productive members of society? How we'd be better off if we just ceded total control of our society to the oligarchy?
Yeah... One of these doesn't belong on the list. I read all four, and while I enjoyed the first three, the last one is closer to fanfiction than literature in my mind. I always think of AnCap memes and chuckle to myself when I see it mentioned.