But we're going to make so much money, once we've invented the torment nexus!

Reminds me of the joke

Convincing someone they are crazy is called gaslighting and it’s a dick move. Convincing someone they are an android is called blade running and it’s a Phillip k dick move.

That's overloading the tags a bit, isn't it? What on God's Green Globe does CottageCore have to do with this?

@NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @joinin @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop Philip K. Dyck's "Through a Scanner, Darkly" was prescient, and few get the message, nor the significance of the older biblical reference of "Through a Glass, Darkly"

@NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @joinin @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop It astounds me to this day how little Musk must've read of Iain Banks's science fiction to have named his rockets after the minds in Banks's books and still hold the views he does.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @joinin @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop I hate that this is so accurate.

After some point, it becomes DELIBERATELY misunderstanding.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @joinin @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop Sure, some really dumb people think this dystopian science fiction story was written as a warning, but incredibly super smart people like me know it was really written as an instruction manual.- Tech bros misunderstanding prose

Of course they understand it. Its a roadmap for who has power and who doesnt. They want power. They are sociopaths.