This has been my feeling on Dune book 4 - God Emperor of Dune. While it contains several great banger quotes, it leans way more conservative than the previous books to the point that it was difficult to finish. "Oh no, female warriors kissing! ICK!!" and Leto's whole "Humanity _NEEDS_ me as GOD EMPEROR because this IS JUST THE ONLY WAYYY!" are just some examples.

Book 1-3 of Dune are masterpieces IMO. Book 4 was still good although I didn’t enjoy it as much as the trilogy. But I still consider it part of the same overall “Leto/Paul arc”.

Book 5-6 were okay, but didn’t live up to expectations.

To go on more of a tangent, I really thought these books would be impossible to turn into films, but the Villeneuve films are good so far!

I thought the whole point about Dune was that even the 'good guys' are really pretty messed up people at best and that you should absolutely not be taking moral advice from any of them. See every idiot AI-hater accidentally endorsing slavery by a bunch of idiot psychotics by saying "We need a Butlerian Jihad".

I think you may have missed the point of GEoD

No voting? How is it curated?

very cool!

This sounds like a quote from Dune. I feel the same.

Gas stove, oven, and clothes dryer with polyester/nylon will all cause my air quality sensor to go into the red.

Some takeaways:

- be very careful of what oils you're using when cooking food to ensure they are not turning volatile

- try to avoid using a dryer for non-natural poly clothes and use hang drying instead

I think it depends on who you follow/connected with. I only follow people that are prone to write their own posts, and I feel Linkedin is less filled with AI crap as mass public platforms like X.

LinkedIn feed now brings dumb posts from AI bots that contacts follow. All social networks tend to follow the same principles now: bring to everyone’s feed what’s most engaging, which is normally clickbaits or posts that use exaggerated words

Likely. MS doesn't like using models that are not hosted by them internally (see VSCode Copilot)

How does it compare with CLINE?

In case people missed it, here's the video that caused the lawsuit to get filed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

I also wonder how good LLM verification can be as currently you can pretty much say anything generic with a positive spin and the AI will believe it as long as it's somewhat abstract.