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'But What if we Made a Show Showcasing the Positives of the Torment Nexus' (pawb.social)
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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 56 points 1 day ago (3 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.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago

He's not ignorant. He's completely aware that cautionary tales about anything prime people to be more critical of related products.

He wants people to be more stupid so they buy more stuff (from him), not be less stupid and buying less stuff.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

R.U.R. added its somber view to that of the even more famous Frankenstein, in which the creation of another kind of artificial human being also ended in disaster, though on a more limited scale. Following these examples, it became very common, in the 1920s and 1930s, to picture robots as dangerous devices that invariably destroyed their creators. The moral was pointed out over and over again that "there are some things Man was not meant to know."

- Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel, introduction

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know if anyone has pointed this out (I'm sure they have) but fundamentally I think it's related to the cultural impact of the Garden of Eden story. God creates Man in His own image, and Man comes up short and disobeys God. Man creates Robot in his own image, and Robot surpasses man and disobeys him, completing the cultural cycle. Both stories are about human nature being flawed, with robot stories being about how the flawed human nature leads us to want to "become God" by creating life on our own, becoming our own Demiurge, creating a shadow of a shadow of the "Divine Image" which represents goodness and morality.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sky Mall would really get him going