h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

They continue to give poor results even when I put quotation marks around my search terms. I remember when there were numerous search engines. If one didn't have what I wanted, others would.

I saw a prediction that it was 98% certain that AI would destroy life on the planet within a century. Unless that prediction itself was made by AI, in which case it is no better than non-AI predictions

Though that is an AI prediction, there is cause for concern, mostly of the 'garbage in, garbage out' variety.

I stumbled across this yesterday. Sabine Hossenfelder is a physicist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAVyzzO1XE

I suppose the Kindergardners had more imagination without the distraction of the opposite gender.

Yesterday I got annoyed by the de-latinisation that took place in my Asterix comic. I got my son one (Asterix and the Britons) that I used to have when I was young and they 'updated' the translation from French. Some landmark quotes got lost in the process. ('My lawn is smaller than Rome, but my pilum is much harder than your sternum' turned into 'My home is my castle and my garden the moat'... Yuck!! Just Why?!) They also got rid of most of the footnotes telling me what current day cities went with the latin names and what the elderly pirate is actually saying in Latin.


The Britishness of the Britons went from 'clear but subtle' to 'Ad nauseam'.


Maybe they used AI? Or one of the disinterested students...


If you can read and it says 'Pull' you pull...

Sorry to hear about the Asterix - I thought the point of those comics was to allow kids, especially, to discover the fun of multilingual jokes. Which are, after all, the best kind, as they lead to tolerance and an appreciation of human diversity.

So true.

Sometimes the translators just get caught in their own doings.

When the first Harry Potter came out, they thought it was just a childrens book, so they changed some of the names in translation. (Cringe) You can't go back after that. That's why I prefer reading English originals in English.

I hear you. Always better in the languages you know.