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1984@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s the best immersive sim ever made, and the predictions it made way back in 99 are pretty amazing.

  • JC Denton: I don’t see anything amusing about spying on people.

  • AI: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.

  • JC Denton: Some people just don’t understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.

  • AI: The need to be ovserved and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.

  • JC Denton: Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.

  • AI: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.

  • JC Denton: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.

  • AI: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.

  • JC Denton: You underestimate humankind’s love of freedom.

  • AI: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That one was really good. I’m impressed by the level of insight here. Feels like we were a smarter species back in 2000.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah thanks for the vivid trip down memory lane. It’s sad you have to really search hard to find such pearls nowadays.

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  • doom_and_gloom@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ve both got good points.

    Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

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  • WamGams@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This comes up a lot in science fiction circles: did PKD predict the future, or did he invent it?

    Much of his work seems to have been the basis for technological revolution.

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• chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any time I’ve been there it hasn’t felt any different than other airports. What about it is spooky?

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mtnweekly.com/travel/denver-airport-paintings-2/

    There is a lot of weird things about that airport, but the murals and the statues are probably the most interesting.

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    • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      WOW is there a lot of mental health issues in that mtnweekly link… I wouldn’t visit that without putting on a double-layer of tin foil, and maybe some lead underwear, just to be safe.

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      • Starfarer@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wow, you were not wrong!

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      • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep, stay away from it, could be dangerous for you. :)

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The art has a kill count.

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