The best? worst? blurst? part of it being that the LLM isn't even close to self aware or alive. It isn't even really appropriate to talk about how it lacks consciousness, in the same way that one doesn't talk about the sand on a beach having a soul(Wealthy).
It's just everywhere, and Very Serious (Wealthy) People are saying it's alive, and if you don't believe in it either then maybe you're not being productive and don't deserve a job where they give you a free* wire in your head.
*hahahahaha
TOS has some really great episodes - the benefit of just getting actual scifi authors to submit scripts. And then it has, uh, well some of it is probably also due to the scifi authors...
I just use my safe can opener on those as well, works fine. It uses pressure to split the rolled over seam around the edge, so it doesn't matter too much what kinda can it is.
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down, it's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!
The Federal Highway commission has ruled the Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.
Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports, unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
She blinds everybody with her super high beams, she's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)
An Arizona prosecutor said the man arrested in the shooting of a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix had more than 200 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass casualty event.
Assuming he was one of the Hecatoncheires, perhaps. But while looking for a photo of one, I came across this very convincing evidence that he was - and that some kid called "Percy Jackson" incited this whole thing.
From the reference on the wiki page, it should be published as part of The Portable Sixties Reader on p208-212 - https://annas-archive.org/md5/1a4c9e7d4519296b4947e5efdd8ef024 - just downloading it to read it myself.
Edit: That link was a large pdf that failed to download, changed to a more sensible epub.
I can see it - the top-right green squiggle has a bit of an Amigara Fault vibe to it.
"This lever... it was made for me!"
On that topic, Exalted VS Old World of Darkness is a pretty fun one for the entire point of it being punching all that edgy bullshit in the fangs with shiny golden bullshit that can actually improve society somewhat. Or doubling down on the edgey power thematics, but not having to pay the awwwwwful price and be all mopey about being Killhard Soulshitter.
"In conclusion the seals ~~were riddled with bullets, smuggling large bricks of cocaine in their vests instead of armour plates, taunting Poseidon, ignoring a very ominous fortune cookie, wearing those nasty falling-apart ten-year-old boots they'd been told to throw out for seven years, had not completed the fishman supersoldier programme to develop gills, and were carrying twenty pairs of cotton socks to protect several bottles of Klingon bloodwine. As a result they~~ sank."
There was a kids show with that plot called The Odyssey. The main character was fighting through a fantasy land that reflected their struggle to reawaken - I think I liked it? I can't really remember.
Here's a nicer existential musing (the second paragraph, but the first is related to it):
With some commentary:
A breathable weave of flax.