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Makes me think of the short novel Manna, about a dystopian future where working class humans are micro-managed by AI. (And an alternative future where everyone
by leereeves 1y ago
Makes me think of the short novel Manna, about a dystopian future where working class humans are micro-managed by AI. (And an alternative future where everyone shares in the benefits of technological progress.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
- krasin 1y agoThe story is amazing and officially available online: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
- y-curious 1y agoI enjoyed that first bit, I'll give it a read. Thank you both
- fakedang 1y agoSadly the dystopia in that story is already partway there, and the utopia is too unreal, just some techno-futurist idealism.
- svachalek 1y agoI think all we can do is help every little way we can to ensure AI is distributed, that we can own our own AI deployments and robots, rather than letting it all roll up to a few billionaires owning everything.
- fakedang 1y agoDoesn't matter when your workplace is going to use AI monitoring, self-hosted or cloud-based. Unless you're your own boss.