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[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[-] Revonult@lemmy.world 5 points 4 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.

[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

Makes sense, I was just joking :)

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