It's really incredible how I can no longer tell what's satire and what's very real opinions and ideas being shared seriously
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I'm sorry, but what about this cube is "population sized"?
Well, if you liquefy the entire human race, it would fit into a container with roughly those proportions.
In fairness, you can probably keep enough whole humans to stack in there without touching and then just liquefy the rest. That should save some money and time.
Are we compressed into the gigantic meat cube mechanically or are we assimilated into it like the Borg assimilate species?
Everyone gets a 1’x1’x6’ cell to luxuriate in. If my memory serves..
If it's serving lasagna, I'm in. I haven't had good lasagna in years.

The cube is the lasagna.
Be the lasagna you want to see in the world.
We got a beef and short rib lasagna from costco the other day that was straight up decent
So if we double the cube we can have a 2'x2'×12' space? That might be better than some NYC apartments already
Pretty sure that's feet not meters :( I demand a bicycle camper's worth of space, or I vote, strenuously object, against this.
I think you just start pitching people in, and the compression happens naturally as the people pile up.
Good news though. Without using any math or science, my AI determined that the people at the bottom will be under enough heat and pressure to become oil, or diamonds or both. Just put a spigot at the bottom so we don't lose that economic value in the bodies of the people we've systematically crushed to fund our lavish extravagant lifestyle.
I think you just walk into the fluidic solid walls, like the Homer into the bushes gif, except face first, where you are slowly enveloped by the acceptance of the warm loving collective.
Even though those are very different procedures, I fail to see how the outcome could be any different.
It's all good until someone farts
have you smelt my brand?
it's had buildings cleared until they saw me and said "it's just this guy's farts false alarm"
We can have two cubes.
The Web invaded Mainframe
Sprite and virus battled side by side,
Attempting to reclaim the city
from the rift which opened wide.
But Megabyte betrayed Bob and
he threw him deep inside the pit.
The pit was closed and Bob was hosed
and all that he could say was "Nooo!"
Without Bob to protect us
we thought we would have no barrier,
From he who would infect us
except Enzo, which was scarier,
The city shivered terrified
from fear of the Infector's touch...
"I guess your fear was verified, I wasn't a protector much."
(I guess our fear was verified, he wasn't a protector much)
(I guess our fear was verified, he wasn't a protector much)
(I guess our fear was verified, he wasn't a protector^ector^ much)
It wasn't Enzo's fault at first
he only was a little Sprite,
At best he was the worst but then
he slowly learned to do it right,
And just as he was getting skilled
a Game came down he couldn't win,
I thought for sure they'd both been killed,
first Bob then Enzo, not again!
(And just as he was getting skilled a Game came down he couldn't win)
(She thought for sure they'd both been killed, first Bob then Enzo, not again!)
I went from Game to Game
I aged, I grew and lost my innocence,
I soon became enraged by each
and ev'ry bad experience,
The Sprite you knew was gone
I had become a grim aggressor man,
I knew from that point on
that I was truly Bob's successor man.
(The Sprite we knew was gone, he had become a grim aggressor man)
(He knew from that point on that he was truly Bob's successor man)
I met up with the Webriders
and took the form of Interface,
I joined my gun with pirate swords
and sailed the seas of cyberspace,
And when at last the pair of us
were fin'lly reunited guys,
Our shouts of joy did blare because
we really were delighted guys.
We soon made tracks to Mainframe
so our friends could reunite with us,
We made it back and Megabyte
was waiting there to fight with us.
When Bob went
face to face to face to face
with Hexadecimal
...his chances for survival shrank from small to infin'tesimal.
(His chances for survival shrank from small to infin'tesimal)
(His chances for survival shrank from small to infin'tesimal)
(His chances for survival shrank from small to infin'tesi^esi^mal)
Bob helped to defragment my head
while Matrix fought with Megabyte,
I thought he'd wind up dead
but Matrix put up a terrific fight.
I'd dreamed of this each lonely night
of doing in that virus trash,
But just as I had won the fight
he engineered a system crash!
(You dreamed of this each lonely night of doing in that virus trash)
(But just as you had won the fight he engineered a system crash)
What Megabyte had hoped to do
was cause his death to crack us up,
I gambled on the User to ReBoot
and thereby back us up.
It worked! We all were born anew
and rid of things barbaric,
And now we're back together,
Ev'rything's alphanumeric!
(It worked, we all were born anew and rid of things barbaric)
(And now we're back together, ev'rything's alphanumeric)
___And now we're back together, EVERYTHING IS ALPHANUMERIC!!
WARNING: INCOMING GAME
Such a stupid take. You build a data center in Sydney when all the people are in NY? Think of the latency!
We need to build a giant spherical data center and humans will crawl on the outside like ants. No one will ever be more than the circumference away from another user, and all traffic can be routed through the fastest and shorted physical route.
Then the rest of the earth gives us 24/7 solar power. 10/10 super happy love love!
They built the Dyson sphere to exclusively power grok. The sun no longer licks the earth with its warm light. The land based datacenters on earth, now buried under hundreds of meters of ice, provide the few remaining sources of heat through their exhaust shafts. The last of the surface bound human refugees cling to them as camps and villages pop up here and there. Sustaining themselves on Jensen Huang brand "Hot Dog flavored" meat-like rations, they gather in small villages hobbled together about the exhaust vents. Unable to exhaust enough carbon from their blood they can't even risk letting their core temp drop. They know atmosphere as well the cold to be their prison wall. There they huddle for warmth, rationing, and waiting for the next hoard of autonomous PolyGPTMarket Enforcement Drones. Waiting to learn whether their agenetic overlords placed enough stake on their survival, or that the day had come - that they might be swept down the shaft, macerated and baked into hot-dog flavored oblivion.
But it'll take four and a half billion years to compile its model and just as it's about to be completed the Vogons will destroy it to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
but, but why in New York?
To forget about it.
Beats Old York.
how big is the cube, and how much space per person?
One average person volume per person.
that cube could fit anywhere , not just newyork !
40k type shit
But if we just get rid of humans altogether, then the cube is also free for AI to build a huge data center to run agentic workflows.
This is close to the plot of Accelerando (Stross, 2005). After disassembling the other close in planets to make more compute, the AIs disassemble the Earth too, despite the pleas of what is left of the humans.
Sounds like Megacity 1 from Judge Dredd. But imagine, instead of because of thermonuclear war, we're cramming the world's population into a megacity for AI.
It’s pretty bad when you reference Judge Dredd and Dredd is the better if the 2.
Do techbros take inspiration from Magnasanti or take it as a challenge?
Now we're laughing but lets save it and wait 10 years to post it again as an optimistic scenario.
is this including the cavities in the body or do we have to blend everyone prior to this?



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