We also associate laboratories with evil scientists and Frankenstein and the like. I can just hear Boris Karloff (er Bobby Picket) uttering “I was working in the lab late one night. When my eyes beheld an eerie sight… … … …the monster mash”. If anything, I associate _uncertainty_ with labs. The result is never known up front, they’re a place of discovery.

But I get your meaning. What should they be called instead? AI Sausage Factories maybe (cue Upton Sinclair?)?

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Avicebron 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> What should they be called instead? AI Sausage Factories maybe (cue Upton Sinclair?)?

That's actually great? Slaughterhouses killing off the collective genius of humanity and grinding it into a bland paste for mass consumption.

	▲	travisgriggs 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even kind of fits the model. All of the creativity man has raised is herded to the slaughterhouse and ground up so we end up with a big homogenized mash of ground up creativity, devoid of the life that gave it, rotten if not eaten soon enough.

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whatshisface 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

By that definition, wall street would be a lab, and so would be a casino. I guess we could call them, "data refineries."

	▲	Bluestein 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Refinery makes a lot of sense. I like it particularly because it raises the question of whose (whose) "oil" (data) it is they are purloining.-