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This might be one of those “careful what you wish for” scenarios. The neutral outcome might well be that they generate dialog with training data from Scots Wikipedia. Or Scots Grokipedia I guess
@antifuchs @techtakes The Culture won't be adapted for TV/film without input from Iain's heirs and his literary executors. Who are all very definitely Scottish and will have Opinions ...
who gets the California accents though
That hegemonizing swarm outbreak would do nicely imho
The Affront are literally the colonial British, so they're easy
@dgerard And The Empire of Azad was basically modern western imperialism writ large.
subtlety is wasted on most readers
@dgerard See also Dilbert Stark's drone ship names ...
I posit the Culture having the Californian accents, because they're liberal colonialism writ large but they're nice about it, until they aren't
christ these people are so bad at reading things
Bezos loves the Culture too, and you can be sure he and Musk identify with the Minds
Tired: alien horrors with tentacle beards
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