Technology

this is gonna go nowhere per usual, but still, the very idea of working in your dreams is fucking horrifying. black mirror type shit.

You ever have a crazy intense epic dream and come up with this awesome new idea that you think will change the world, and after a minute or two of being awake and coming to your senses, you realize how utterly idiotic you sound? There's going to be a lot of that.

I sometimes lucid dream, something tips me off that it's not real, and then I can take some control. Mostly I like flying, but sometimes I go full crimefighting superhero.

Realizing you are in a dream world and deciding to work, is like winning a billion dollars and deciding to spend it all on a nice car somehow. What a boring waste.

If you think LLMs hallucinate too much, wait till you check out code literally written during hallucinations.

Software engineer says: “Fuck off and let me have a life.”

I have a lot of lucid dreams, and they're often in a specific city, and sometimes I even go to work in these dreams. I haven't lived in a city and worked in an office in over 10 years, so it's some kind of reverse escapism. I can always leave, and weird stuff happens anyway. I wouldn't trust any of my work output there.

But to let a company try to take over your dreams and never let you escape, you need to stand up and fight that shit. Put them in a never-ending nightmare where nobody gives them money.

This concept actually makes me want to have AI take my job

If I’m going to be working in my dreams, I better get paid for it.

This is stupid for a wide variety of reasons, but one of the more interesting ones is that text is notoriously inconsistent in dreams.

A very common "reality check" to see if you're dreaming is to look at a clock or text, look away, and look back. The time/text will nearly always change.

So explain to me how they expect COMPUTER CODE to work?

If this is the same startup I read about a while ago... Well the technology doesn't actually exist. There's a vague suggestion that maybe lucid dreams could be induced through techniques that are not properly understood yet, and that's about it.

I already work in my dreams. I’m always having dreams about going back to jobs from my past. God owes me money or something.

Lucid dreaming is such a cool concept. The ability to mentally experience things in a truly boundless environment, untethered by laws of physics or standards of reality.

Why the fuck would you want to waste that experience on work?

Doubt

I don't entertain media with clickbait titles, and you shouldn't either.

I spend enough time at work during the day, I'm not letting some manager take my sleep from me too. Fuck that.

Well this is fucking dystopian.

Futurama - S01E06 - Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

For a job this would be horrifying. But for my hobbies? This would be cool as all heck.

Can we call this timeline a dystopia yet?

Get your beefbrain shield pro quick, we're headed into hypnospace

You have no idea the shit that's in my dreams. You wanna see me code like that?

Buckle up, chuckle-nuts.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231201193125/https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/lucid-dream-startup-prophetic-headset-prepare-meetings-while-sleeping/

Ps: shutup and get in your work pod already

I'm probably not a lucid dreamer, but at times when I write code all day long I may also dream about it at night. Sometimes, I would wake up in the middle of the night and write an "amazing solution" down so I can implement it the next day. Not surprisingly, most of the "amazing solutions" are total nonsense.

Edit: If this happens to you, it's probably a sign that you code way too much. I know it might be difficult, but try to relax more please.

No. Fuck no.

Your waking life for minimum wage and your dreams for free.

This would lead to awful code, but it's 100% bullshit.

People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?

Great The Onion stuff. Hard to make this shit up.