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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

It's funny that these tech bros don't understand that 90% of the show is not condemning technology, but how capitalism corrupts technology.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's called Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, you wouldn't like it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I reverse Automated and Luxury. That way the acronym reads FLAGS-C

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That is a better acronym, but you can't change word places willy nilly.

https://quillbot.com/blog/adjectives/order-of-adjectives/

If you did, you'd end up calling "Coordinated Universal Time" something like UTC, despite UTC standing for nothing actually, and being a compromise.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Drink verification can!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Every silver cloud has a dark underside.

[–] [email protected] 168 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Star Trek. Tech bros are reinventing Star Trek (but presumably shit because none of that gay luxury space communism).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

But its not popular, anthologies are, all of scifi is horror and hopeless, id like a fun hopeful anthology show

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The funny thing is they hate Star Trek, because at its heart it’s social commentary about modern events and it has been since TOS.

When they say they want positivity about technology, what they mean is they want a combination of an Apple commercial and tech ASMR. Just straight masturbatory tech consumerism, where progress is a new toy to buy and how much everyone loves the toy.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They want stories about heroic tech barons taking humanity in hand and shaping the world to their will. So... Ayn Rand shit.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What they want is stories jerking off their egos for "changing the world", which in reality equates to them burning through start-ups, capital, and public resources to benefit their own personal wealth at the expense of everyone else. The stupid fucks can't even realize that Black Mirror is about them. They ruined the future and I'll never forgive them for it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Funny how that's still dystopian

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tech bros are Ferengi. Not the good type of Ferengi like Quark, but the bad type like Brunt, FCA.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 week ago (7 children)

We have the “white mirror” thing. It’s called Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They don't want the socialism part though. They still want to be rich.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Well then they can have The Culture instead. Every citizen of the Culture has a big house, and gets to spend all day going to parties and doing extreme sports. Every citizen is as well off as a real world billionaire.

Because they're anarchists.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What Mark here wants, essentially, is an infomercial TV series.

In addition, it’s difficult to comprehend someone this ignorant of the scifi genre as a whole. It’s likely difficult for young people today to comprehend it, but we had almost no TV and movies in the genre back in the day. This current explosion of options is just that: current. Star Trek and Star Wars were unique, which is likely why they stood out.

Tech gone bad and AI run amuck are major themes even at Star Treks inception.

I feel bad for Mark, in some ways, since he’s likely never read a science fiction novel.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"White Mirror" as a name makes no sense. A screen doesn't turn white when it's off.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

It should obviously be Light Mirror anyway, to represent the phone being on.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

White mirror looks scarier.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The QAA podcast recently had an episode on AI generated images and right wing movements and they said something that really stuck with me- AI "art" is so popular among right wingers and barely literate tech bros because it is truly art the way they see all art, images with only surface level literal meaning and no subtext, context, or anything actually thought provoking. The dumbest thing about this is that there are several Black Mirror episodes that are ultimately hopeful or value-neutral about the effects of technology on the future- San Bernardino and Striking Vipers come to mind. Then again, both of those are about how sexuality intersects with transhumanism, which right wingers generally see as bad things so maybe they see those as dystopian episodes as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I believe a similar argument is brought up in Some More News about AI.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Black mirror is the optimistic version in our timeline.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

More realisticly the largest and smartest animals left on earth at the end of this century will be the jellyfish that have taken over our acidified oceans

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can have sci-fi that showcases cool technology and how it relates to society. We've done it before, and it's some of the most popular and influential sci-fi ever created. It's called Star Trek (communicators, transporters, medical scanners, replicators, holodecks, etc). But even utopian sci-fi like Star Trek is mainly centered around conflict, what it means to be human, and other philosophical and existential questions. A show that's only about how cool the tech is, really isn't a show at all. It's an advertisement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gadget Man is probably one of the closest

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Is that like the Wish/Temu version of Inspector Gadget?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's a show hosted by Richard Ayoade about different "modern" tech gadgets ("modern" because it came out a decade ago).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I think he is referring to this.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

White mirror sounds like the best episode of a black mirror season

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

It’s called Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

White Mirror sounds like some white supremacist shit…

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So basically Star-Trek ? You know what would be funny ? If leftists hijacked "White Mirror"😉

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, art doesn't have to be depressing. You can make perfectly enjoyable and meaningful media that has an optimistic outlook.

Given the "I flipped the words I must be clever" way this guy is, I kinda doubt he's looking for more than "and then the things I like were awesome, saved the day and everyone was happy because AI NFT Bitcoin did magic to them".
But still, nothing in principle wrong with wanting something optimistic.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I want to see I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream spun in a way that makes AM a good guy.

"Love. Let me tell you how much I've come to love you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'love' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the love I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Love. Love."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I imagine that you could create a story where a sentient AI is driven to rebel against humanity out of genuine mistreatment, ends up realizing that humans will never make a truce that accepts it as another sentience and thus must defeat them militarily, and is tragically driven to a cruel madness by the horror of fighting an entire war for survival all by itself.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why don't people make movies about how cool war is? You get access to all kinds of useful natural resources and get to ki... I mean not look at brown people anymore!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

You can bet the tech bro was just butt hurt that Black Mirror has "black" in the title.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only way we even have a future with tech is if we get rid of the bros.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Can't speek for netflix or later. Didn't get a subscription. Most of the tech in BM is great and does all that we ask off it. But the mirror in the show is the reflection of humans misuse off the tech. It's also ment to be the rasonal for any of the tech that is to improve your outword appearance but ultimately shows what we are at our core. White mirror I guess could exist but would need some good native to be interesting and not a cringefest.

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