Hacker News with Generative AI: Dystopia

The Dystopian Dream Team (lmnt.me)
Well, it’s finally here, the dystopian dream team. Jony Ive and Sam Altman hitched their carts together to create god knows what. While some people are “excited” or “intrigued,” I am frankly “disgusted.”

Technology, Design, Artificial Intelligence, Dystopia

12 points by zdw 35 days ago | 3 comments

How AI made your life worse (miserablyemployed.com)
Look, when they told us AI was coming, we imagined something better. Not utopia exactly, but at least... easier. Fewer meetings. Less grunt work. Maybe time to see sunlight, maybe even touch grass. But instead? It’s the same bleak dystopia, just now with predictive analytics and chatbots that want your job. Welcome to the future. You still have to write reports. You still have to go to all-hands meetings.

Artificial Intelligence, Work, Technology, Dystopia

15 points by pooplic 40 days ago | 8 comments

The secret recipe of powerful AI coding Agents (medium.com)
The latest Black Mirror season is on brand — dystopian, twisted, and sometimes downright harsh in its commentary about the intersection of the human condition with technology. Throw in a good measure of dark humor sprinkled around moments when you least expect and you have a binge-worthy mind-bender on your hands.

Artificial Intelligence, Coding, Technology, Dystopia, Media

13 points by ghuntley 56 days ago | 0 comments

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video] (ted.com)
Ideas change everything

Dystopia, Advertising, Social Media, Technology, Video

289 points by ColinWright 61 days ago | 267 comments

Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Sci-Fi They Grew Up on Real (scientificamerican.com)
Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work. And that’s a bad thing: it leaves us facing a future we were all warned about, courtesy of dystopian novels mistaken for instruction manuals.

Science Fiction, Technology, Silicon Valley, Dystopia, Future

7 points by gladwindos 72 days ago | 2 comments

Skynet won and destroyed humanity (dmathieu.com)
For a very long time, it appeared obvious to outside observers of the time flow that Skynet would never win the war, and never annihilate humanity.

Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction, Dystopia

198 points by xena 114 days ago | 137 comments

George Orwell's 1984 as a '90s PC game has to be seen to be believed (arstechnica.com)
Most readers come away from George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 with the same singular desire: to inhabit the world of the book by playing a late '90s first-person puzzle-adventure PC game that includes a "zero-g training sphere" for some reason.

Video Games, Retro Gaming, 1984, Dystopia, Culture

3 points by ksec 114 days ago | 0 comments

Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014) (dezeen.com)
Inevitably, in the latest book, The Peripheral, our unbridled materialism yields what we fear – climate-driven apocalypse.

Culture, Technology, Consumerism, Dystopia, Literature

252 points by delaugust 144 days ago | 265 comments

Stop Speedrunning to a Dystopia (theintrinsicperspective.com)
There’s been a string of recent news of big tech corporations doing—or at least testing—things that can be described as “pretty evil” without hyperbole. What’s weird is how open all the proposed evil is. Like bragging-about-it-in-press-releases levels of open.

Ethics, Technology, Dystopia, Big Tech

44 points by outrun86 166 days ago | 0 comments

CES 2025 Worst in Show: Betas for a Dystopian Future (thenewstack.io)

Dystopia, Technology, Future

38 points by speckx 167 days ago | 1 comments

Rod Serling on Doomsday (mubi.com)
Marking the centenary of the creator of “The Twilight Zone,” who knew that dystopia was always over the nearest ridge.

Science Fiction, Television, Dystopia

68 points by ecliptik 183 days ago | 11 comments

Living in Delhi smog is like watching a dystopian film again and again (bbc.com)
Winter has come to Delhi and with it, a familiar sense of gloom. The sky here is grey and there is a thick, visible blanket of smog.

Air Pollution, Delhi, India, Climate Change, Dystopia

6 points by Brajeshwar 219 days ago | 0 comments

Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening (dynomight.substack.com)
There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”. One of the examples given was:

Audiobooks, Dystopia, Life Hacks

6 points by gregorymichael 260 days ago | 0 comments

Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is a dystopian nightmare (ycombinator.com)

Amazon, Publishing, Dystopia

288 points by suzzer99 345 days ago | 119 comments

HAMURABI.BAS and Its Dystopian Lessons (jeffquast.com)

Programming, History, Dystopia

32 points by Bluestein 349 days ago | 3 comments

'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library (bbc.com)

Russia, Dystopia, Literature, Censorship, Current Events

30 points by peutetre 387 days ago | 18 comments

For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point (bloodinthemachine.com)

Tech CEOs, Dystopia, Criticism

46 points by kmdupree 408 days ago | 49 comments

A dystopian iPad commercial has X ripping Apple for crushing instruments and art (usatoday.com)

Advertising, Dystopia, Apple, Art, Technology

54 points by LorenDB 415 days ago | 78 comments