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I don't understand why you decided to respond to an almost-dead comment when the top-voted comment thread shows the same technopessimism.
by Kiro 6y ago
I don't understand why you decided to respond to an almost-dead comment when the top-voted comment thread shows the same technopessimism.
- jcahill 6y agoI'm similarly unclear on what sort of response you expect. There weren't many comments when I replied. My criticism was tailored to a fairly specific phenomenon: asymmetrically imaginative doomsaying that appeals to a vivid vignette / sketch of an adjacent possible future featuring some hyperbolically elaborated extension of trending tech, like Flash Mob Gone Wrong[1] and Slaughterbots[2]. HN flagging and points are irrelevant to me. ____________________ [1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY https://youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots