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202 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6h \ on: Vibe Capital Accumulating - Allen Farrington AI
Yeh...
To his point, the way I like to think of it is humans are still the main characters.
I think about the computer in Star Trek. It's actually smarter than the LLMs we have now. Captain Picard can ask the computer to do complex mathematics, look up historical information, even speculate as to creative solutions to a problem. But throughout the series, the computer was always a tool. The humans were the main characters who used the tool to solve their problems.
I'm not enough of a Trekie to have made this connection, but it rings true from what I've seen. I wonder why Star Trek took a different path than Space Odyssey, Termintor, Battlestar Galactica, and company.
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Gene Roddenberry explicitly wanted to present an optimistic vision of humanity. It's probably the most pro-human and most utopian of all the major sci-fi franchises.
Although there are occasionally interpersonal conflicts arising between the humans, most of the drama in Star Trek is about how the humans will resolve some moral dilemma that arises due to interacting with alien cultures, in addition to standard sci-fi actiony stuff
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