Comment by Devasta
1 day ago
Nobody forced them to build the torment nexus, blaming the authors of Don't Create The Torment Nexus is just silly.
1 day ago
Nobody forced them to build the torment nexus, blaming the authors of Don't Create The Torment Nexus is just silly.
"We would never have created the Torment Nexus if you pesky authors hadn't written so many stories about how we absolutely, positively should not create it."
"It made stonks go up so it was worth it and we'd do it again given the chance."
I hate the Torment Nexus metaphor. Because in practice it involves terminally short-sighted people who apply the aesop to mean "Don't make neural interfaces that enable the paralyzed walking and the blind to see because it was used by the Torment Nexus!" While disregarding that the original story was intended to be an allegory about say, electroshock therapy and neural interfaces were just the windowdressing.