• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    A lot of techbros like to have “alternative interpretations” on said works. They don’t see them as technology/power bad stories, but as issues of bad alignment.

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      10 hours ago

      To be fair that’s me and Jurassic Park. It’s not about man’s hubris, it’s about one cheap-ass motherfucker. Lions aren’t constantly escaping from zoos.

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      “Yes the torment nexus didn’t work out in the classic scifi novel “Don’t build the torment nexus” but that was just because the people who built it where incompetent. Look, i am different, see I have billions of dollars I am definitely competent enough to make the torment nexus work.”

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        The other usually is “The Foundation in the classic sci-fi novel «Don’t Build The Torment Nexus» did not see the importance of a «humanity first» approach, and cut corners for profit”, then they immediately cut corners for profit.