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It is always weird to me how some people see the dystopian aspects of dystopian fiction as inspiration. They will see cautionary tales about certain technology
by slg 5y ago
It is always weird to me how some people see the dystopian aspects of dystopian fiction as inspiration. They will see cautionary tales about certain technology and respond by trying to build that technology. It is even more bizarre when these people will openly admit it and name their product something like "Soylent".
- ianai 5y agoThe universe isn’t black and white. Hell it can’t seem to quite agree on where it’s particles are at a fundamental level (until we figure out what measurement is - see latest Sabine YouTube video). Further things are often negligible for some scale, great/useful for some scale, then outright horrible past some other scale. Though naming something Soylent did always seem too on the nose.
- ok123456 5y agoIt's not all "black and white". But this suggests a very superficial reading of source material this is purportedly based on. It's saying "Hey that future looks kinda cool!!!" at a very superficial level without a deeper reading of how peoples' material conditions are affected.