i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

emptyheadgamer:

i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

  • Don’t feed the trolls
  • Never give out personal information
  • Anonymity is the best defense
  • Don’t click suspicious links
  • Don’t click popups and ads
  • Just because it’s written doesn’t mean it’s true
  • You are responsible for your own experience
  • There is porn of everything, act accordingly

me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone…

mikkeneko:

humanjeff:

me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone fights with swords and has mental powers, but the idea of a Butlerian Jihad against computers is pretty silly

me in 2025, trying desperately to find the three (3) places you need to go to to disable the latest helpful AI assistant that’s inserted itself into my work chat and is advising me to do things that would be a breach of federal law: Oh Now I Get It

I always thought the spec fic religious prohibitions against AI were overblown, but now I am coming to appreciate that this is just the level of social oomph you need to have behind a such a prohibition for it to even have a chance of actually being effective