“People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?”
The first sentence of this article is like a Black Mirror episode pitch that got immediately shitcanned because nobody wants to watch heavy-handed Marxist social critique based on an utterly implausible premise.
@ct_bergstrom @cstross “engineers writing code in their sleep hashtag grindset” isn’t even a plausible dystopian sci-fi scenario.
More plausible would be: new startup promises to use your sleeping brain capacity for pattern-matching tasks, offering passive income in return. With falling real wages, people get hooked on it. Reports of info leaking are dismissed. Then the task load changes from, say, classifying fruit to moderating atrocity footage, causing an epidemic of psychological breakdown.
Carl T. Bergstrom
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Stephen J. Anderson