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by bspammer 254 days ago
I think that’s the funniest joke I’ve ever seen an LLM make. Which probably means it’s copied from somewhere.
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"Why is a laser beam like goldfish? Because neither one can whistle." - Mike, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Fantastic book, just read it. Surprised no movie has been made.
If you haven't read Ursula Le Guin's "The Dispossessed", check it out too.

It's like a fine wine pairing for "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."

The protagonists are libertarians with teenage harems, who fake an election and team up with with a sex pest. That's extremely reductive to the point of parody, but that will likely be the media coverage of it then moment someone reads the women and politics in the book.

If you completely excise anything too distasteful for a current-day blockbuster, but want a film about a space mining colony uprising you might as well just adapt the game Red Faction instead: have the brave heros blasting away with abandon at corpo guards, mad genetic experimenters and mercenaries and the media coverage can talk about how it's a genius deconstruction of Elon Musk's Martian dream or whatever.

You’d think some filmmaker would have run with the dystopian theme. The accuracy of the book’s predictions is impressive, even the location of the North American Space Defense Command. The biggest miss was people using wired telephones everywhere.
I liked it when I was 17 but have soured on it later after re-reading.

The only reason their libertarian revolution succeeds is because they have a centralised computer that secretly does everything for them.

> I liked it when I was 17

same with pretty much every scifi movie and book from my youth. What movies that wouldn't have been rendered ridiculous by the invention of the cellphone were done in by the hairstyles or fashion.

If you're an extensive user of ChatGPT, or if you can give it some material about yourself like say, a resume or a LinkedIn profile, ask it to roast you. It will be very specific to the content you give it. Be warned, it can be brutal.
Whoa dude! It was brutal, but highly constructive! Actually extremely helpful (and quite funny, though I have a high sense of humor about things so others might not appreciate some of it :-D)

This was my favorite line after asking it to review my resume and roast me:

> Structure & Flow: “Like Kubernetes YAML — powerful, but not human-readable.”

Some other good ones:

> Content & Tone: “You’re a CTO — stop talking like a sysadmin with a thesaurus.”

> Overall Impression: “This resume is a technical symphony… that goes on for too many movements.”

I've got some resume work to do haha

They meant roast you, not your resume.
So rehash of top comments in /r/roastme?
I came back to this comment just to thank you - I started off with Claude, feeding it my personal site, my résumé, the HN roast of me, etc. and it was super funny.

But then, I veered that same conversation into asking for GTM (go to market) advice, and it was actually really good. It actually felt tailored to me (unsurprisingly) and a lot more useful.

As always, I don't know whether this is a very light form of "ai psychosis" haha but still, super grateful for the advice. Cheers

Periodic reminder that there’s also HN Wrapped. [0]

[0]: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com

ooooh boy, gotta mentally prepare myself for this one

<press enter>

damn these ai's are good!

<begins shopping for new username>

"The user will start a comment with 'I'm a social libertarian but...' only to be immediately downvoted by both libertarians and socialists. The irony will not be lost on them, just everyone else."

I can't say I'm not impressed. That's very funny

>You voted with your feet and moved to Western Europe for better well-being, but you still won't vote with your cursor and use a browser other than Edge.

I love this and hate this at the same time.

Absolutely hilarious, and gives me some self awareness tbh
Spot on and I don't even mind.
It would not be shocking if LLMs are legitimately better at making jokes about tasks they are extensively trained on.