3d ago

I wouldn't say "hoping for" but which cyberpunk dystopia do you think is most likely to happen (of any franchise)?

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The classic of course.
We're allready half way there. Neuromancer.
- My company poached a bunch of people from a competitor. And I'm hoping to parlay my US job into a transfer to the EU to get citizenship. Meanwhile my company is building arguably the most complex system ever made by humans. No one employee knows enough about it to say how it works. All we know is that big corporations pay big money for it. And if a system is capable of becoming self aware, it will happen in one of our facilities as no one else has systems as big and fast as ours.
  Yes, I work in AI.
  
  No one employee knows enough about it to say how it works.
  Just a friendly warning: This is a giant red flag for any job.
  You are almost certainly working for a scam if you hear things like this. This is exactly what Bernie Maddoff employees would have said, or anyone at FTX or WeWork.
  My advice? Get the most out of it that you can, money, transfers to EU, whatever, and don't let them drag you along. set deadlines. make written contracts with dates in them.
  Be prepared to not be paid without warning, and MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL: Keep Receipts, save emails, photograph them if neccessary. Be aware of laws, and get things in writing if you are requested to do anything you are not sure is legal.
  
  I think you misunderstood my intent. The modern world has a lot of Neuromancer aspects.
  The AI programmers don't know how to manage servers. The sysadmins don't know how the liquid cooling works.
  Every company has silos. And AI itself is kind of a black box. Non-deterministic software is by definition unknowable.
  Plus the whole centering of the novel on AI.
  
  Let me guess, you’re building Skynet. Just remember not to give it any minigun robots, nuclear missiles and robot factories.
  
  Skynet already exists.

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