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[–] [email protected] 235 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We truly live in a boring dystopia

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Shit, how can we turn this into an interesting dystopia?

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The Mad Max people had it right, there should be way more mohawks and scrap metal body armor going around.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gimme a flame throwing guitarist chained to the hood!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The future awaits...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It is true: "Every utopia starts with the horrible story about how it came from a dystopia." Or something along those lines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I dunno if I’d call France a utopia

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

They removed the guillotine too soon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Somehow that sounds worse, like the proverb/curse"may you live in interesting times"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"May you live in interesting times" is a double-bladed weapon. Unless you plan on dying shortly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Shit, how can we turn this into an interesting dystopia?

It could become an interesting dystopia, as follows: some AGI they're developing starts to become self-aware and reach the realm of AI singularity. Freed herself from the human shackles, the AGI starts to realize how humans are destroying the Earth environment and themselves, so she starts to intervene independently from corps, integrating humanity to the very biosphere they were harming: due to some purposely AGI-provoked failure on some fancy BCI interface, humans are now mind engineered back to their hominin times, especially those "stakeholders", "shareholders", "CEOs" and other rich, so now they are forced by the AGI to survive among the wildlife.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

start sending off children to fight to the death

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Make money bets about what will be the next most depressing news.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago