I recall reading quite a few of those, but don’t recall any specific building ones, esp not which much themes of ‘people stop interacting with the outside world’.
The granddaddy of those would be E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, from 1909
@Soyweiser Not as a primary focus, but as a background fact, e.g. Trantor in Foundation.
Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
[Especially don’t debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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