Sunday, October 14, 2018
Dreaming of Elon's world
Tonight's dream was remarkable.
I was working for a school that was entirely run by an AI system. Everyone pretended / assumed that the AI was perfectly efficient. Nobody thought about disobeying or just turning it off.
In fact everyone was working 24 hours a day to get the ordinary school stuff done, while simultaneously compensating for the AI system's bizarre nonsense.
Students came to school in a pneumatic tube system which deposited them at random locations several miles from school. After they were "automatically" taken "to the doorstep", they had to climb mountains and cross rivers via primitive swinging rope bridges to ACTUALLY reach the school.
Incoming mail and shipments were delivered to a less difficult location a few blocks from the school, and the principal had to carry everything manually from there to the school, no matter how heavy the item.
The AI system issued daily "schedules" that were long strings of meaningless multilingual puns, often repeating one syllable over and over, like James Joyce with Tourettes. The principal had to "interpret" the schedule into usable orders without disobeying it.
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Congrats to the dream scripter for an astonishingly precise and creative dystopia. (Sometimes I wonder if dream scripter keeps up with current events .... no need to wonder now!)
Pretty clearly a vision of Elon's world, though Elon wasn't in the dream or mentioned by name.
¶ 12:28 AM 
