I guess we could have an IOT but it’s all wired like a Simon Stalenhag artwork but it’d be cool to see what a tech-centric world were wireless signals didn’t evolve would be like.
everyone carries a dumb smartphone-like hand terminal but they have to physically jack into a network access point to download new content and messages.
capitalist hellhole side-plot: tech workers are expected to do so every 15 minutes, even on days off, to ensure no missed slack/teams/etc. notifications.
we’d have to do a physical inspection of access points for data skimmers like we had to do with gas pump credit card scanners before chips were widespread.
Rich people have servants called data-fetchers who bring them constant updates via high-speed floppy sticks that they transfer off a data terminal and constantly update whatever electronic devices necessary for their master. People who make bootleg ports into the wirework (internet) are called data lords and these places are frequent targets for theft, sabotage, tertiary greymarket dealings, etc.
As a long time tech worker i just hate computers entirely.
There are two types of tech worker, the ones who want to find a way to turn themselves into a literal monkey and never look at a computer ever again. Those that love tech hype trains but couldn’t program their way out of a paper bag and probably end up in management which drive the former to want to metamorphose into
The more knowledge you have about what an LLM is and how it works the worse it feels to watch people use the damned things. I’ve got a friend who uses them for marketing copy for her job (sure, whatever), for grocery lists (uhh), for writing scripts for difficult conversations (uuuuhhhh), and as a source-of-truth search engine (UUUHH). Like she’s fully surrendering her ability to think to the Machine That Only Tells Lies. Butlerian Jihad can’t come fast enough
I overheard at the gym the other day someone getting this great idea for a book and said with a straight face “Someone should totally get AI to write that!”
I just died a little on the inside that day. It’s so depressing seeing the world be almost gleeful about delegating all creativity to an algorithm.
yeah you hit sort of an x-point of technologically illiterate digital forward people and I do believe they’re going to get unbelievably fucked by the whole ordeal on account of trusting their decision making to the hallucination machine
Yeah its fucked. These things are Completely unmoored from reality. People are outsourcing their higher cognitive functions to a machine that provably doesn’t have them. Absolutely terrifying.
I’m pretty sure a lot of tech workers don’t trust it either
The anti-IOT techies must all hate AI even more. The inverse must also be an overlapping circle too.
I was about to point out that I have IoT stuff and hate AI, but my IoT stuff is mostly using zigbee instead of wifi so it can’t try to phone home…
I’m anti-wave and anti-trend. Clear the air and put everything back into wires.
“Yes, I’d like 2.4Ghz of music, please”
Sad no one ever.
We have been played for absolute fools.
I guess we could have an IOT but it’s all wired like a Simon Stalenhag artwork but it’d be cool to see what a tech-centric world were wireless signals didn’t evolve would be like.
everyone carries a dumb smartphone-like hand terminal but they have to physically jack into a network access point to download new content and messages.
capitalist hellhole side-plot: tech workers are expected to do so every 15 minutes, even on days off, to ensure no missed slack/teams/etc. notifications.
You’re describing Mega Man Battle Network down to the terminology
hell yeah and here I was just using standard scifi/cyberpunk terms
Everyone carries a spool of cable attached to their phone
we’d have to do a physical inspection of access points for data skimmers like we had to do with gas pump credit card scanners before chips were widespread.
Rich people have servants called data-fetchers who bring them constant updates via high-speed floppy sticks that they transfer off a data terminal and constantly update whatever electronic devices necessary for their master. People who make bootleg ports into the wirework (internet) are called data lords and these places are frequent targets for theft, sabotage, tertiary greymarket dealings, etc.
monkey paw curls
Military drones are now controlled via optical fiber.
As a long time tech worker i just hate computers entirely.
There are two types of tech worker, the ones who want to find a way to turn themselves into a literal monkey and never look at a computer ever again. Those that love tech hype trains but couldn’t program their way out of a paper bag and probably end up in management which drive the former to want to metamorphose into
Unironically I’ve began to realize I don’t hate STEM, I just dislike tech.
Unfortunately for me, the S in STEM is silent.
in Italy, the monkey is of the symbols of the Tech Workers Movement
My experience with it is technical knowledge correlates negatively to AI enthusiasm
The more knowledge you have about what an LLM is and how it works the worse it feels to watch people use the damned things. I’ve got a friend who uses them for marketing copy for her job (sure, whatever), for grocery lists (uhh), for writing scripts for difficult conversations (uuuuhhhh), and as a source-of-truth search engine (UUUHH). Like she’s fully surrendering her ability to think to the Machine That Only Tells Lies. Butlerian Jihad can’t come fast enough
I overheard at the gym the other day someone getting this great idea for a book and said with a straight face “Someone should totally get AI to write that!”
I just died a little on the inside that day. It’s so depressing seeing the world be almost gleeful about delegating all creativity to an algorithm.
yeah you hit sort of an x-point of technologically illiterate digital forward people and I do believe they’re going to get unbelievably fucked by the whole ordeal on account of trusting their decision making to the hallucination machine
Yeah its fucked. These things are Completely unmoored from reality. People are outsourcing their higher cognitive functions to a machine that provably doesn’t have them. Absolutely terrifying.