Get in the AI cube

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[–] 140 points 6 months ago (18 children)

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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  • [–] 64 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Tech bros suggesting we live in a hive city is believable

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago

    What? That's not at all what that article describes.

    That's talking about using federal lands to build towns. Towns with very odd and selected features, but I don't see anything even vaguely like a hive city in there.

    Don't get me wrong still terrible, just for other reasons

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    You don’t want to live in a matrix-esque human pod?

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  • [–] 63 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago (20 children)

    Are we compressed into the gigantic meat cube mechanically or are we assimilated into it like the Borg assimilate species?

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Everyone gets a 1’x1’x6’ cell to luxuriate in. If my memory serves..

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    If it's serving lasagna, I'm in. I haven't had good lasagna in years.

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    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It's all good until someone farts

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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"

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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    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!!

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago
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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    So that's how the Judge Dredd timeline started.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    I feel like I'm already in it.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    how big is the cube, and how much space per person?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    No brain for damn sure

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    0 m² only 2000 a month then

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    that cube could fit anywhere , not just newyork !

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    This was an episode of Star Trek.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Isaac Asimov's "Caves of Steel"

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    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.

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It’s pretty bad when you reference Judge Dredd and Dredd is the better if the 2.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Looks like game dropped on that Reboot Mainframe

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    cue the: ackshually…

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Do techbros take inspiration from Magnasanti or take it as a challenge?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yes, move All the humans to the cube.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Now we're laughing but lets save it and wait 10 years to post it again as an optimistic scenario.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    is this including the cavities in the body or do we have to blend everyone prior to this?

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