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
In this case, "proposed by Donald Trump" is like saying that a ventriloquist dummy with a hand up its ass and someone else mouthing the words has proposed something.
I think maybe 'irony poisoning' is overhyped and we should talk more about cynicism poisoning. So, so much rhetoric on lemmy and reddit only makes sense through the lens of the most cynical theory of mind possible. An opportunity for malfeasance existing is assumed to be proof of malfeasance.
I actually believe that >90% of people are evil for all intents and purposes and I still think the rhetoric needs to chill.
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.
If you keep stacking them high enough with a perimeter strong enough to keep them contained, the heat and pressure would eventually get high enough to liquify the ones at the bottom.
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.
am i getting my own farting cube because i want an angry dome too. i'll share the angry dome but i won't share the farting cube. i mean i'll share the farting cube but after one fart it's mine.
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)
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.
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.
96 Comments
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 139 pts · 107d
It's really incredible how I can no longer tell what's satire and what's very real opinions and ideas being shared seriously
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 63 pts · 107d
Tech bros suggesting we live in a hive city is believable
4am@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 107d
It’s actually already proposed
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 107d
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
CainTheLongshot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 107d
And also
🤔
lemmock@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 107d
In this case, "proposed by Donald Trump" is like saying that a ventriloquist dummy with a hand up its ass and someone else mouthing the words has proposed something.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 107d
those are closer to company towns than hive cities
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 3 pts · 107d
I dont like the sound of that.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
I don't like it and I don't want it
4am@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 105d
You are very correct to not like the sound of that, IMHO
nixukty@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 107d
if you can't tell that this is satire maybe some time off of lemmy is warranted
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 107d
Tech bros unironically suggesting insane bullshit like this tho, that was a flavor
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 107d
The blue check mark is throwing me off.
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 107d
Is your comment also satire cause idk how you can think this post isn't
spacesatan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 106d
I think maybe 'irony poisoning' is overhyped and we should talk more about cynicism poisoning. So, so much rhetoric on lemmy and reddit only makes sense through the lens of the most cynical theory of mind possible. An opportunity for malfeasance existing is assumed to be proof of malfeasance.
I actually believe that >90% of people are evil for all intents and purposes and I still think the rhetoric needs to chill.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 107d
You don’t want to live in a matrix-esque human pod?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
What kind of nutrient paste will I get in the pod? Horse or better?
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
Horse. Definitely horse.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
so where do we sign up?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 107d
Yeah and even if it's a joke, it's only a matter of time before some billionaire asshole takes it seriously
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 107d
Well, if you liquefy the entire human race, it would fit into a container with roughly those proportions.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 107d
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.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 107d
If you keep stacking them high enough with a perimeter strong enough to keep them contained, the heat and pressure would eventually get high enough to liquify the ones at the bottom.
village604@adultswim.fan · 6 pts · 107d
That is hands down my favorite P&R moment
karashta@piefed.social · 46 pts · 107d
Are we compressed into the gigantic meat cube mechanically or are we assimilated into it like the Borg assimilate species?
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 107d
Everyone gets a 1’x1’x6’ cell to luxuriate in. If my memory serves..
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 107d
Weve got room for whole other 2/3rds of a person in here
https://youtube.com/shorts/j1vACtdEpwg
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 107d
If it's serving lasagna, I'm in. I haven't had good lasagna in years.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 107d
The cube is the lasagna.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 107d
Be the lasagna you want to see in the world.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
I'm not lasagna though I'm straight.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 107d
Real G’s move into the cube in silence, like lasagna.
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 107d
We got a beef and short rib lasagna from costco the other day that was straight up decent
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 106d
So $4-8k/mo before utilities.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 107d
So if we double the cube we can have a 2'x2'×12' space? That might be better than some NYC apartments already
Corngood@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 107d
Check out the high ceilings in these luxury cubes
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 107d
Pretty sure that's feet not meters :( I demand a bicycle camper's worth of space, or I vote, strenuously object, against this.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 107d
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.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 107d
Obviously, I will be one of the top people, so at first thought, who cares... but on 2nd thought, I don't want to end up swimming in oil.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 107d
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.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 107d
You're run through a grinder to join the mega-meatball.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 107d
It's a sort of human pyramid meets human centipede.
bajabound@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
I believe the first step would be dehydration.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
Both.
marcos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
Even though those are very different procedures, I fail to see how the outcome could be any different.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 107d
It's all good until someone farts
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 107d
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"
Wren@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 107d
We can have two cubes.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 107d
am i getting my own farting cube because i want an angry dome too. i'll share the angry dome but i won't share the farting cube. i mean i'll share the farting cube but after one fart it's mine.
Kyrrrr@mander.xyz · 37 pts · 107d
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 107d
Game incoming
SuperEars@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 107d
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!!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 107d
Went too far for "Warning, incoming game."
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 32 pts · 107d
WARNING: INCOMING GAME
corodius@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 106d
exactly what i saw aswell
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 107d
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!
Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 107d
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.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 107d
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.
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
Did someone say...
Evotech@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 107d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
Tiral@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 107d
So that's how the Judge Dredd timeline started.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 107d
but, but why in New York?
db2@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 107d
To forget about it.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 18 pts · 107d
Hey! Im
walkingin a cube here!Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 107d
ceenote@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 107d
To help real estate prices
chisel@piefed.social · 3 pts · 107d
Beats Old York.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
they got chippies in York, and Wallace and Grommit live nearby.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 107d
I feel like I'm already in it.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 107d
how big is the cube, and how much space per person?
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 107d
One average person volume per person.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 107d
But the AI gets more than 1 AI space per AI? No fair. We should split the space equally!!!
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 107d
that sounds like something a communist would ask
keyez@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 107d
How much space you get depends on your credit score
Nfamwap@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 107d
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 107d
No brain for damn sure
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 106d
0 m² only 2000 a month then
tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 107d
that cube could fit anywhere , not just newyork !
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
Pish posh where else is there?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 107d
This was an episode of Star Trek.
PolarPirate@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 106d
40k type shit
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 106d
Some of us have faith in the Emperor to protect us.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 107d
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.
OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 107d
Isaac Asimov's "Caves of Steel"
PillowD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 107d
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.
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 107d
muxika@piefed.muxika.org · 3 pts · 107d
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.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 107d
It’s pretty bad when you reference Judge Dredd and Dredd is the better if the 2.
Haquer@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 107d
Judge Dredd the film is a classic.
Dredd was super well done and I'm pissed there isn't a sequel.
muxika@piefed.muxika.org · 1 pts · 107d
I was referencing the comics, lol.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 107d
Point still stands.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 107d
No.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 107d
Looks like game dropped on that Reboot Mainframe
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
Yes, move All the humans to the cube.
housedogpartyfavor@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 107d
cue the: ackshually…
inconel@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 107d
Do techbros take inspiration from Magnasanti or take it as a challenge?
Avicenna@programming.dev · 1 pts · 105d
is this including the cavities in the body or do we have to blend everyone prior to this?
vane@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 107d
Now we're laughing but lets save it and wait 10 years to post it again as an optimistic scenario.