I’m a bit confused by this. Bjartur’s most sub-culture-friendly story, naively (in the sense that it’s chockfull directly of in-group references) is The Company Man, which also happens to be his most popular story, by a considerable margin.
Most of his other stories are only particularly subculture-specific in that they tend to have as their foundational basis a hypothesis like “AI will be a big deal”, which I expect to be much less subculture-specific in the future to the extent this hypothesis is correct.
Seems reasonable, I’d have to reread the stories. My guess would be that after that I’ll still think that the particular flavour of “AI will be a big deal” is still subculture-specific and likely enough to remain so. I.e. a particular view of what AI is, what a future with AI might look like, the capabilities we imagine it having, what’s horrifying about it etc…
I’m a bit confused by this. Bjartur’s most sub-culture-friendly story, naively (in the sense that it’s chockfull directly of in-group references) is The Company Man, which also happens to be his most popular story, by a considerable margin.
Most of his other stories are only particularly subculture-specific in that they tend to have as their foundational basis a hypothesis like “AI will be a big deal”, which I expect to be much less subculture-specific in the future to the extent this hypothesis is correct.
Seems reasonable, I’d have to reread the stories. My guess would be that after that I’ll still think that the particular flavour of “AI will be a big deal” is still subculture-specific and likely enough to remain so. I.e. a particular view of what AI is, what a future with AI might look like, the capabilities we imagine it having, what’s horrifying about it etc…