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Cyberpunk
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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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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.
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.
There is no such thing as Non-deterministic software. except maybe microsoft windows. Jury still open on that one.
I stick to my statement, and you can remember this post in 5 years, and we can see who was right :)
Let me guess, you’re building Skynet. Just remember not to give it any minigun robots, nuclear missiles and robot factories.
Skynet already exists.