They take warnings in popular culture as instructions or inspiration.

Maybe they got sucked into the cool tech?

I remember my first pass reading of Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Diamond Age, I was bedazzled by some of the tech … it was later readings that the comments like “biomass” (the recent echo in AI “meat proxy”), or how the Primer was ultimately a failure sank in later readings.

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fallinghawks 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Heck, we're living Idiocracy right now.

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fragmede 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The UFC fight on the Whitehouse lawn was a bit much.

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rightbyte 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Except the strange dysgenics reason for the downfall of high civilization in Idiocracy it is a interesting movie. It should have talked more about cultural enshittification.

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croes 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Camacho made the most intelligent man secretary of the interior, Trump would never do that.

So it’s kind of worse than Idiocracy

	▲	hunterpayne 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
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927373912092 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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verandaguy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's basically the Torment Nexus meme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

... but I guess some people took this as positive reinforcement.

	▲	rightbyte 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. A bit overused by now I refrained from quoting it. Someone here on HN crowned Sam Altman as a "sociopat sociapat" i.e. playing sociopats for money. I think that was the insight of years for me. Battle Royal explodeing collars for the working class in his doomsday bunker. Or was that Seth of Reddit? It is a especially visible concept in the new tech sector war industry. Edgelord as a Service.