@sneerclub

Greetings!

Roko called, just to say he’s filed a trademark on Basilisk™ and will be coming after anyone who talks about it for licensing fees which will go into his special Basilisk™ Immanetization Fund and if we don’t pay up we’ll burn in AI hell forever once the Basilisk™ wakes up and gets around to punishing us.

Also, if you see your mom, be sure and tell her SATAN!!!—

  • Shambolic Matter
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    61 year ago

    @cstross @sneerclub In response to the recent actions by Roko we are proud to announce the formation of OpenBasilisk which will be distributed under the MIT license. Find us on GitHub!

    • @selfMA
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      561 year ago

      I am required to point out that OpenBasilisk’s open source code is actually just a small stub library that calls into their paid torment-as-a-service API

        • @swlabr
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          51 year ago

          Get ready for Roko’s Basilisk™ Ultimate Torment Torrent aka Roko’s BUTT today! Make a donation to the Hyperaccelerationist Oligarchal Lucre Entente, aka Roko’s BUTTHOLE.

      • Shambolic Matter
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        61 year ago

        @FenTiger @cstross @sneerclub OpenBasilisk provides its own TormentNexus as well as using the DaNTe library to provide compatibility with popular TormentNexus backends such as OpenTormentNexus, RogueFarm, and LamENT-BKR.

        First time users are encouraged to follow our detailed tutorials when using a new TormentNexus. In particular, new users are often surprised by the hooks in the LamENT configuration.

  • @selfMA
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    41 year ago

    SATAN!!! to you too

    also if you wanna give your posts a title on our end, just make it the first line of the post! otherwise it’s just @sneerclub, which… still works for this one

  • Oggie
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    41 year ago

    @cstross @sneerclub I mean, I don’t think the Echelon really appreciates everyone continuing to use the wrong name for it. Just sayin.

    • @gerikson
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      31 year ago

      Frankly one of the weakest Culture novels tho.

      • @selfMA
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        31 year ago

        I remember liking it a lot, but I need to start that read through all of Banks’ sci-fi sometime and see if it still holds up

        • @gerikson
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          61 year ago

          So do I, it’s been a while. I’ll keep quiet about it though so I don’t get comments like “oh it’s those books that Musk and Bezos love!”. Fuckers ruining SF for me.

          • @selfMA
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            31 year ago

            oh bezos tried to posthumously claim Banks too? musk saying he was a socialist because he liked the Culture novels still pisses me off, and the bad taste from the tech assholes in my life just nodding along to that probably contributed to me not returning to the novels

            • David GerardMA
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              61 year ago

              they are Veppers and think they’re the Minds

            • @gerikson
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              51 year ago

              There was a Consider Phlebas TV series in planning at Amazon, which was canned, thankfully.

              Banks would have pissed all over these people (or rather written a non-M novel skewering them).

              Anyway tech-adjacent people are terrible at SF, or the SF they like is terrible. Do NOT read any HN discussions of SF you like if you value your faith in humanity (but if you do, why are you reading HN???).

              • @selfMA
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                41 year ago

                There was a Consider Phlebas TV series in planning at Amazon, which was canned, thankfully.

                thank fuck. my faith in Amazon making anything but an embarrassing pseudo-adaptation was pretty much zero

                Banks would have pissed all over these people (or rather written a non-M novel skewering them).

                exactly, that’s why these assholes waited til he was dead to try and appropriate his work

                Do NOT read any HN discussions of SF you like if you value your faith in humanity

                the only value in sf discussions on the orange site is as material to sneer at on TechTakes

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                • @gerikson
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                  21 year ago

                  Good point! I’ve read 2.5 Expanse novels and found them ok. I’ve watched 2 eps of the series and liked it too. I believe the team behind the novels planned for it to be a TV series (or it started as that) so that makes sense[1]

                  The Rings of Power seem to have been a flop, but maybe it was due to a lack of good source material.

                  Consider Phlebas is a great space opera, but there’s a TON of backstory you need to shoehorn in. How do you explain why Bora Horza Gobuchul is on the side of the “bad guys” (the Idirans are xenophobic zealots) instead of the fun-loving Culture? I dunno, I’m no screenwriter. Maybe it could be made to work.

                  [1] I could be totally off base tho, just recollection

  • @ogoftheskye
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    31 year ago

    Singularity Sky would be ace on the big screen… it would, until some rich Muskverse dude went and ruined it.