I wonder if :melon-musk: will have an extra bad sundowning day in his midlife crisis and announce something actually named Torment Nexus to get ahead of the curve.
The granddaddies of all of this are of course Palantir Technologies, the analytics company named after the seeing stones from the Lord of the Rings, and Cyberdyne Inc. which makes assistive exoskeletons.
I think the next dystopian ass shit is going to be some shit out of RoboCop, designed to counter criticism of police brutality through the application of Government by Algorithm. We're already seeing robots trying to replace workers, and the pigs are already using them. It shouldn't be a big jump for them to just start deploying ED-209s into urban environments.
ED-209, but it's a sex bot that fucks cops with erectile dysfunction
The bazinga brains would cheer on ED-209s and start posting /r/publicfreakout and /r/justiceserved videos where the only complaint would be that a black kid stealing a candy bar didn't get Stroganoff'd like at the start of Robocop but instead was only put into a concussion and lost sight in one eye.
Neo-Tokyo, but it's gonna be a bunch of weaboos trying to do a libertarian city in the desert or on the ocean.
I really want one of those Libertarian Paradise experiments to take off a bit more, just to watch it turn into Fyre Festival 2.0
Like the Libertarian town that got overrun by bears, but where we get to see the hog community descend into Lord of the Flies live on Tik Tok
Just like "Crypto Island," one of the first questions asked on the FAQ will be about the age of consent. :guts-rage:
Some sort of virtual pet snake named Roko in the metaverse or some shit
Some computer system called AM
And I'm still shocked there isn't something in the tech world called HAL
That's because HAL technically already exists, it's IBM with every character shifted one position on the alphabet. Also HAL Laboratory, the company that developed Smash Bros did the same thing apparently without knowing it was done in 2001 Space Oddysey already.
HAL Laboratory, the company that developed Smash Bros did the same thing apparently without knowing it was done in 2001 Space Oddysey already.
neat. You can tell because of the way it is.
And I’m still shocked there isn’t something in the tech world called HAL
yeah the lack of a Hal 9000 voice assistant is shocking to me, if Halo 5 hadn't been so hamfisted about the Cortana heel turn we would've gotten basically the same thing in the MS voice assistant but they did :shrug-outta-hecks:
I stopped caring about the Halo series right around the time the narrative of the games tried to make you horny for Cortana WHILE she was also trying to kill/corrupt/whatever Master Chief. Was there a heel turn since then? I really hate Blizzard-style committee-designed "corrupt sexy evil" characters.
I guess Blizzardesque storywriting is all sexual pathology, theirs specifically. "The hot female is also bad and needs to be subjugated and 'cured' somehow, bucko!" :jordan-eboy-peterson:
Most techbros are aligned with Reddit New Atheists and are sort of wary of direct Bible references, unless they are of the "cultural Christian" :jordan-eboy-peterson: persuasion.
US military is going to make a weapon called "the Death Star".
(it won't be an especially useful weapon, just extremely expensive)
So kind of like the Star Wars program, then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
originally went by various code names—GONDOLA WISH, STARGATE, GRILL FLAME
:grillman::grill:
Once someone markets some sort of exo-skeleton/HUD display helmet to cops there is no way they're not going to call it RoboCop.
in 2045, after some particularly heinous climactic events, the US government awards some grifting tech asshole an exclusive 2.9 trillion dollar geoengineering contract to influence the albedo effect with high altitude/low orbit nano drones and remotely controlled particle emitters.
the results are catastrophic. the last sunset visible from anywhere on the Earth's surface is June 14, 2061.
they named it Operation: Dark Storm.
I think the Cybertruck is almost definitely named after cyberpunk, especially as the new wave of cyberpunk that Elon Musk likes is just “the future is really cool and good because there are robot arms and cool cars”
soylent's actually not that bad. like it's just a protein shake with an edgy name. the guy who made it is an absolute dingus though.
No soylent is pretty bad, they started out as a meal replacement shake that couldn't cover all the bases you'd need in a meal replacement shake and costed 2-3 times what normal boring meal replacement stuff costed. And they tried the protein shake angle but it's hilariously expensive compared to any other protein powder. And I'm not even talking about the excessive amounts of lead and other heavy metals in the whole thing.
"meal replacement shake" is already a dystopian enough concept as it is, only it's a boring dystopia where you work so much you don't have the time or energy to cook your own food anymore
They were invented for a good use mostly for people that couldn't chew or otherwise couldn't take solid foods it's just fucking tech-bros dehumanizing themselves willingly for concepts like 'bio-hacking'
washing down my whole nootropic stack with a swig of soylent
only it’s a boring dystopia where you work so much you don’t have the time or energy to cook your own food anymore
so the regular world we already live in
excessive amounts of lead and other heavy metals
I've followed a lot of criticism of soylent and this is the first I've ever heard of heavy metal contamination. Got a source?
