the tech industry is about to invent books

[aedancullen@social.treehouse.systems]

@MattBinder the metaphor is broken anyway, because for it to make sense we'd have to currently have robots doing all our physical labor. I don't think the construction workers finishing the beautiful buildings across the street from me would be very happy if they were told their work was not "modern day work." (In fact, they can confidently say something that no techbro can: in 20 years their work will still be standing and people will still be admiring it.)

People building things using their hands are paid, and people doing knowledge work are paid. Everyone does the kind of work that suits them, and everyone needs to find ways outside of work to enrich themselves in the other ways.

So it just goes back again to the fact that the AI-elitist dream is having slaves for everything. And then yes indeed the ruling class would need to artificially exercise both their bodies and minds while they sit on their thrones otherwise doing nothing.

Have they realized it is not very fulfilling to do nothing?

[svelmoe@hachyderm.io]

@MattBinder "I predict" ...... *sigh*

[svelmoe@hachyderm.io]

@aedancullen @MattBinder If I could do any meaningful work with my hands - I'd drop the computer and change immediately.
I envy those people.

[tankgrrl@hachyderm.io]

@MattBinder
Things tech bros keep reinventing, an incomplete list:
Buses... But worse
Trains... But worse
Parks... But worse
Clubs... But worse
Libraries... But worse
Books... But worse

[fortyseven@defcon.social]

@MattBinder "My time to shine, it is!"

[duncan_bayne@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@MattBinder /me eyes the plan9 laptop on his workbench

[arpie4math@mathstodon.xyz]

@MattBinder

"I Hear a New World", Alan Moore's new book in the "Long London" series, starts hard. Read paragraph. Atlas is a mythological reference. Re-read paragraph. Atlas is a metaphor. Re-read paragraph. Atlas is a *horse*. Continued. Atlas didn't survive chapter one — may feature prominently in the plot later.

[tkissing@mastodon.social]

@MattBinder But these will be written on-demand by AI, tailored to your advertising profile err I mean training goals. Unfortunately it will be technically required that they are bound to your account and access can be revoked at any time - for copyright and national security reasons that OpenBrainX has no choice but to respect.

[phi@toot.kif.rocks]

@Steve @MattBinder you mean what audible already is for audio books? Kindle is becoming for digital books? And btw if your library has a leader board for most borrowed books you already kind of have that as well

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@MattBinder I fear your are terribly overestimating the results to expect here.

[arpie4math@mathstodon.xyz]

@mek2600 @hellomiakoda @MattBinder Obviously because that's the digital version meant for AI. My homebrew Donkey Kong project is kicking off tomorrow now that I have the fire department's ePortal OK for the flaming barrels so long as I keep it to less than 50 people in the building. Just hope the gorilla keeps on task, as that lame-ass consultant whinged that "Throwing barrels is not a natural behavior for gorillas." Duh. That's why I spent so much time training them. But they do seem unmotivated, Maybe I had better rile them up beforehand. Can you imagine how mortifying it would be if the gorillas weren't hell bent on throwing barrels and making everything on fire?

This is clearly my best idea since Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. As usual, drinks *after.* The Fire Department ePortal insisted on it almost as much as the Spider-Man stunt coordinator.

But the ePortal's endless questioning gave me an idea to make sure no one sneaks out to the open bar before I get out of costume: I will lock the doors before we begin. It's just for the 15-20 minute of the actual show, so no late admissions!

[doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org]

@MattBinder How about "do not use the theft slop machine and do the task yourself"?

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@MattBinder I am becoming convinced that calling all of these tech mofos epistemological zombies is wrong, because if you aim for the zombie brain you'd be targetting a vital organ.

[lewdserbin@sfba.social]

#dance #dancing
@MattBinder

There are followers in the world of dance who feel their brains aren't sufficiently used. They learn to become leaders and/or succumb to line dancing, each of which is a greater mental challenge.

[jetsetilly@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@MattBinder Personal computers were once described as "bicycles for the mind".

[elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social]

@MattBinder Gyms? I predict gulags and gas chambers as the tech bro answer to massive unemployment and social unrest.

[fantasmo@sueden.social]

@MattBinder wait till he finds out what the roots of "gym" are.

[zeruch@mastodon.social]

@MattBinder it won't ever be that creative.

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@MattBinder I think it's too late for most of them, the brain damage has already set in. So many people already can't make a single decision without consulting their "AI" god of choice.

What they've done, is invented a braindead religion (which is really saying something given my general opinion of religion).

[vickyjo@mastodon.social]

@MattBinder Coming to a Library near you!