RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116137093085721559

This was definitely in the Torment Nexus

I remember reading a story about this dystopia in the 00s
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Just putting the original #TormentNexus tweet image here so I can tap the sign as required.

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Alex Blechman eee @AlexBlechman Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus 5:49 PM - Nov 8, 2021 - Twitter Web App

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@darakian/116042454792632083

Holy cats that's some nightmare dystopian shit there -- and in the year 2026 that is saying something.

"Fix Them"

*FIX THEM* ???

You fix your brakes before they fail. You fix your HVAC before it fails. You fix that loose thread in your pants before the seam fails and you're airing your posterior in public.

You do not "fix" children, FFS. You especially do not do it by subjecting them to "audio and visual monitoring" you unbelievable creeps.

That's some Black Mirror shit that seems to have escaped the containment of dystopian fiction. #TormentNexus #AI #Dystopian

What do these people actually mean when they shout that man is a machine? It is, as I’ve suggested, that human beings are ‘‘computable’’ (berechenbar), that they are not distinct from other objects in the world, in any way deserving of special respect or even attention. This then leads, at first gradually and then with exponentially increasing speed, to a view of human beings as mere objects who—no! Not who, that—can be exploited, inducted in killing machines, imprisoned, tortured, killed (providing they are ‘‘enemy combatants’’). It leads to the American military sponsoring programs to produce robot soldiers. What is then left of Norbert Wiener’s vision of the human use of human beings? And does not our world show us with utmost clarity how far we have already come?

I want here to emphasize, especially to this audience, that all this is not the fault of the computer. Guilt cannot be attributed to computers. But computers enable fantasies, many of them wonderful, but also those of people whose compulsion to play God overwhelms their ability to fathom the consequences of their attempt to turn their nightmares into reality.

The existence of my Torment Nexus has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the existence of my Torment Nexus.

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#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #TormentNexus