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Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem

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  1. DefinitelyNotAFae
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    This is absolutely excellent. This article says pretty much everything I feel about the the billionaire technocrats who think they're the "great man" who will create the AI that will solve all the...

    This is absolutely excellent. This article says pretty much everything I feel about the the billionaire technocrats who think they're the "great man" who will create the AI that will solve all the worlds problems.

    I want to read the rest of the essays, especially "Whitey on Mars" referencing the Whitey on the Moon poem, that I believe I first heard when watching Lovecraft Country

    From Wiki a neat tidbit

    On April 17, 2023, NASA astronaut Victor Glover, who would later pilot Artemis II in a planned fly-by around the Moon, said that he listened to "Whitey on the Moon" every Monday on his way to work as a reminder "that, at that time, that community, which is very similar to the community I grew up in, they didn't feel heard."[27]

    If I have one complaint...
    I get why the title is framed this way, but Silicon Valley doesn't have a Science Fiction problem, they have an ethics and a moral problem. They have appropriation problems and media literacy problems.

    We have a Silicon Valley problem.

    But I get the title framing

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