• vxx@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    The only thing that is surprising to me is that musk didn’t call it Skynet.

    Scary person.

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      9 months ago

      I think he leaves that kind of plagiarism to his old friend Peter Thiel, who seems to have an obsession with Lord of the Rings villains.

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        9 months ago

        What do you mean by “villains”?

        The only Tolkien inspired names I could find are Arda, Palantir, Valar, Mithril, Rivendell, and Lembas, none of which are names of villains.

        Two Palantiri have been used by villains but that’s about it.

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          9 months ago

          Fair correction, Palantir is only used by villains, it isn’t evil in and of itself. However I’m pretty sure Thiel also had something called The Eye of Sauron - maybe a product made by Palantir.