Mad Science Needs Zombies
Stephen King could probably do a good treatment of the concept. Or AI Michael Crichton.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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Whenever someone brings up a topic like this, I'm always reminded of a book I read as a kid. M.T. Anderson's Feed
If it’s completely voluntary, and is taken up by a few hundred Musk superfans with dreams of being a new Martian aristocracy or something, that’s basically a billionaire deathsub situation: a little tragic, a little hilarious but ultimately having little impact. The problem is if the candidates aren’t self-selecting muskies but economically coerced precarious workers, having to choose between this and struggling to keep their heads above water.