They started believing the very lies they invented.

"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination."

The future is now

I have some good memories of Julian (though they are vague after 10 years or so and I would need to reread). Only recently -- after a long procrastination -- I read Myra Breckinridge. This one is even better, though politically incorrect I admit.

That’s part of a series no? I’ve not read it in a very long time.

Their only moat is that they started 'AI revolution'. More shock waves like DeepSeek release are still to come. Not too mention that LLM->AGI transition in near future is a moot point. They're riding the wave but for how much longer?

Next major crisis (like worst-case scenario AI bubble crash) could cause US economy to shed 3 million jobs. Unemployment rate reached 9% in 2010, now it is just 4%. 32k is a fairly insignificant number compared with 160 million employed overall.

Thanks! Never heard of this podcast, quite interesting.

Comparing various recordings is a rabbit hole I like falling into.

Also take a look at CD Review / Building a Library by the BBC

Also Dave Hurwitz on YouTube, who combines a love of the material with a healthy disrespect for the poseur side of classical music fandom

Before AI even attains the promised AGI level, we all will be driven mad by 'slopocalypse' like in one of the PKD stories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_Pitch_(short_story)

I've not read that story in decades - thanks.

I got shudders just re-reading it when I came across:

'“It’s too late to vid your wife,” the fasrad said. “There are three emergency-rockets in the stern; if you want, I’ll fire them off in the hope of attracting a passing military transport.”'

...which sounds exactly like ChatGPT5.

After consuming even more: >> .. et toi?

Another interesting one: Rumpelstiltskin

https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm055.html

Which of them did you like best? Apart from obvious choices like Poe, Doyle or Christie.