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highplainsdem

(56,962 posts) Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:46 PM 10 hrs ago

Ellis Rosen's cartoon in this week's New Yorker

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
— Ellis Rosen (@ellisjrosen.bsky.social) 2025-06-30T14:40:15.041Z

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Ellis Rosen's cartoon in this week's New Yorker (Original Post) highplainsdem 10 hrs ago OP

Kick. Gaugamela 10 hrs ago #1

Haha, perfect. Pinback 10 hrs ago #2

Spot on. LudwigPastorius 9 hrs ago #3

Gaugamela

(2,864 posts)

1. Kick.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:57 PM

10 hrs ago

Pinback

(13,289 posts)

2. Haha, perfect.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2025, 10:13 PM

10 hrs ago

And the hipster black togs + mangy scruff complete the package.

Both writers were big-hearted humanists, but Dick, in particular, was obsessed with understanding what really makes us human (e.g., in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?). They’d both be appalled at the outsized and malevolent influence of the tech bros. in today’s world.

LudwigPastorius

(12,802 posts)

3. Spot on.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2025, 11:31 PM

9 hrs ago

I don't know how many times I've read articles that tout Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics as a template to develop "safe" A.I.

The same articles often fail to mention that the plots of Asimov's robot stories frequently hinge on the failure of those Three Laws.

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