Hackers' Pub

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io

12/4/2025, 4:42:34 PM

Public

❝It was *impossible* for me or anyone else present to get him to understand that *we don't want slaves, simulated or otherwise*.

I've thought about that a lot in the days since.❞

Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io

12/4/2025, 4:48:17 PM

Public

I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.

I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188

…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us @rysiek@mstdn.social @cstross@wandering.shop Guinan said it. This scene still gives me chills every time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T9TUeapBSQ What writers. What a pair of actors.

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