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Comment by throwaway892238

3 years ago

I'm honestly kinda spooked out at the multiple websites and companies here that seem to be from NGE. I can't really tell if these are fake or real.

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djur  3 years ago

There's a product called "Soylent" and a company called "Palantir" -- lots of precedent for this kind of thing.

  • kmeisthax  3 years ago

    Aah yes, we've finally invented the Torment Nexus from the famous sci-fi classic Don't Invent the Torment Nexus

    • XorNot  3 years ago

      I hate that tweet. It was coined in the context of whatever Meta was doing with "the Metaverse" which for some reason everyone decided to lose their minds about as some sort of imminent threat rather then just a ge nobody wanted to play.

      The thing is, The Metaverse wasn't a problem in Snow Crash. It just was - it was a thing, and it was generally regarded as one of the last places not totally under the dystopian corporate lawlessness that the rest of the world was.

      So the motivating example is built on misunderstanding the original text, in the same way that Meta doing it was built on misunderstanding everything about the concept.

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