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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 99 points 4 months 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 4 months ago (1 children)

Gimme a flame throwing guitarist chained to the hood!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The future awaits...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months 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 4 months ago (1 children)

I dunno if I’d call France a utopia

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They removed the guillotine too soon.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The trick is it should never be removed: There will ALWAYS be greedy fucks that don't care about others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. They definitely got a little guillotine-happy towards the end there. They should have just put it away in the back room, and taken it out on parade for special occasions. As a reminder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Make it so any position of power has a functioning guillotine right over their desk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They might get the picture if you rigged a haphazardly trained Ai camera to it:

"Hey any excessive scratching under the desk might be perceived as under the table bribes or other corruption behavior and release the guillotine. You've been warned."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

start sending off children to fight to the death