Comment by tclancy
2 days ago
Same. Growing up Gen X, I always thought robots being used for evil would be cool dystopian dictatorships that would try to grind me under its boot but I would resist. Instead it’s just twerps who are so terminally online they can’t fathom other people seem to have feelings.
Now I’m getting even angrier imagining the email that went around internally on how to spin this and why it was a short term loss but will be for the long term good. Of trying to kill off the idea of cleaning people and then jacking up rates.
> I always thought robots being used for evil would be cool dystopian dictatorships that would try to grind me under its boot but I would resist. Instead it’s just
It's... both.
the banality of evil is a recurring theme in human history.
Yes, but I was kinda hoping Hannah Arendt’s lessons had been internalized and we would progress. More the fool I.
One thing that I've been noticing more and more, is that it looks like every dystopic work of art, be it 1984, brave new world or idiocracy, ends up being used as an instruction manual.
So far we were implementing only the first two ones, with AI, it looks like we decided to accelerate Idiocracy implementation too.
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