🏛️ Politics 4h ago · John Gray

AI will dissolve civilisation as we know it

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In Roadside Picnic, a science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky published in the Soviet Union in 1972 and the basis for a 1979 film by Andrei Tarkovsky, an extraterrestrial species visits places on the planet that come to be called zones. The aliens stay for only two days, then depart, without displaying any interest in humans or having any contact with them. They leave behind a scatter of obscure artefacts, possibly just litter but seemingly the source of miraculous events and eagerl

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