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In response to
"Ron’s Gone Wrong made me actively angry. I’m not ScarJo in “Lucy” angry, but still angry. Spoilers, I guess."
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Mop
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Spoils
Posted by
Beryllium (aka grayman)
Dec 26 '21, 23:02
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Ironically, its lack of awareness about how Tech works perfectly encapsulates Tech's delusion about how Tech works. "Oh Marc is just the creator, he totally means well, it's the business guy who is bad" - no, the business guy is just honest about it. Further, Marc's first "solution" for Ron doesn't involve learning anything about what went wrong, he just replaces the broken code and pats himself on the back - which works against his expressed interest in finding out what had gone wrong, further revealing his shallow understanding of the depths of his own creation.
It depicts the creator as extremely clueless, and thus is quite accurate. To build technology like this without even a single ounce of brainpower directed at how the harvested data would be used is tech's pipe dream. Build, build, build - let someone else think the deep thinky thoughts. But no one else does, because the stuff being built is earning gobs of money and it's not their job to have philosophical concerns.
Then when he finally performs an iota of contemplation about the situation, he helps corrupt the system using the broken ("sentient") code. He still doesn't understand it, or how it happened. Or how the company's original two approaches (massive social, followed by hardcore isolation) were fundamentally affecting the psychology of its young customers - so how could he understand the ramifications of the broken code?
It's very muddled. But this part of it is true to reality.
People who build without reflection are doomed to create soulless works. In this case, one microscopic part of the creation developed its own "soul", and the solution was ... to carbon-copy it to the rest of the work? I guess? Feels wrong.
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