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Performance Imprulevement Plan (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I swear I remember hearing about a science fiction story where the "self-driving" cars actually just had people hidden in them.

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

scifi dystopia future where a race of gnomes are created to sit inside things and play mechanical turk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I watched this sketch comedy show in Iceland as a kid, where every week they had a section called "the men behind the curtains". It was just people hidden away inside ATMs, vending machines etc. pretending it was a machine doing the work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Slow march to 40k servitors not looking far fetched. Why develop an AI/algorithm when you have no moral conscience and can just make a human do it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Spoiler

Snowpiercer?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, there are no cars in that, although I get the connection.

This was a short story or novel I think, but I haven't read it just heard about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Makes sense, I was just joking :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil