> The author of "Don't create the Torment Nexus" may have intended it as a cautionary tale whose lesson is not to create the Torment Nexus, but that doesn't obl

> The author of "Don't create the Torment Nexus" may have intended it as a cautionary tale whose lesson is not to create the Torment Nexus, but that doesn't obligate the reader to come to that conclusion. One of the points of the Torment Nexus joke is that the Tech Company is totally oblivious to the fact that "Don't create the Torment Nexus" was describing something bad. > Why shouldn't we say with a couple minor tweaks and a sexier name this "torment nexus" would be pretty cool? I actually think your defense there actually gets to the core error: things can be simultaneously cool and awful. For instance: nuclear war. On the one hand, you have high tech rockets buzzing around insanely fast while precisely dropping incredibly powerful fireworks; which is admittedly pretty "cool," on the other hand, you have mass death and suffering. The Tech Company people are shallowly responding to just the "cool" part, and missing all the rest.