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A 2030 Morning Routine

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One thing that stuck out to me reading this was the constant reference to various AI agent's by a name.

It made me step back and think about how some of these AI products are named and I honestly prefer when a product isn't named like a person. Just to think of two: you have "Claude" and "Alexa" which gives the impression you are speaking to a person when you very very much are not.

I gotta say I kind of prefer the name "ChatGPT" that OpenAI went with. It doesn't try to pretend it's a human with it's naming and also describes what it is in it's name.

I think Star Trek nailed how I would want to interact with a computer by voice. (maybe someone will figure out how to make AI agents do that, including Majel Barrett's voice)

Yeah, I would also prefer to rename a smart house controlling agent to "robo butler 9000" just because its funny. I dont want a human slave. I want to feel like Im in a weirdly funny episode of Futurama

I think I find the trend of giving AI products names of persons sort of uncanny, exactly because of that: It implies that a lot of the people in charge of naming those products do empathize with the idea of wanting human slaves, or at least human butlers...

To speak to your AI agent please drink verification can

https://rumca-js.github.io/quickstart/public/posts/2025-05-2...

If anyone is interested in a longer form version of this sort of story I’d highly recommend Ken Liu’s The Perfect Match.

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match...

Wait, they are going to return to cubicles in 2030? Sounds awesome ;)

Nah it’s going to be more like those standing seats that some low-cost airlines have been planning for a while. That’s more than enough for you and your headset. The very best workplaces will also provide a small elliptical bike at your feet.

There will be fewer and fewer of us in years to come, but real estate doesn’t grow on trees!

They can make electricity with your pedalling. Like a dystopic hamster wheel powered office. All bodily functions can be monetized

While I generally subscribe to the philosophy of "if you're good at doing something then never do it for free", but my company is welcome to my shit for free.

First they will run it through some sort of analytics to sell the results to biomedical information-tracking companies for aggregate data:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/the-wild-story-of-how-gut-...

Next - they will take the resulting "output" physical mess and turn dump it into a methane fuel-generating waste-treatment plant.

If that still doesn't make enough $$$, and your measured productivity metrics are not good enough, don't worry - if you also end-up living in one of the "techbro sponsored corporate feudal city-states" you can always help the company by being turned into "biodiesel":

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...

Perfectly realistic except the ending: why would anybody pay humans to generate voiceovers in 2030s, when AI can already do the job?

likely boorishly contrived for this style of storytelling

That's all organic artizan voiceover, not like the unhealthy garbage AI voiceover the lesser cool people use.

Because enough people will pay $200 for a "premium" HDMI cable, that a market for premium HDMI cables exists.

[Exaggerated rant incoming]

You clearly haven’t listened to enough ”state of the art” AI voices. Even in languages blessed with centuries’ worth of training data the butchered proper nouns and misemphasized syllables are grating.

As a misguided side effect of RLHF, the models which occasionally succeed in hiding their monotony will just indiscriminately vary the speech with a random patchwork of poorly timed pauses and melodic patterns. Good luck maintaining cohesion and semantic grouping of words.

And that’s for the five or so widely used easy languages.

God forbid your European car manufacturer, instead of using the completely adequate and predictably consistent Siri-style GOFAI solution, decided to use some cheap Elevenlabs-copycat API for localised driving directions.

Now you’re dealing with bandwidth and latency issues, pronunciation that constantly changes, and utterly unusable performance in your 10 million speaker ”niche” language. For many of these languages rule-based algorithms were good enough and our solar system will freeze before you accumulate enough training data for the current generation TTS to perform well.

“All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=135

Marvin would be right at home in our tineline

I was hoping this was about FM-2030’s morning routine. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much information online about/if he did anything particularly unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

I wonder: if we get superintelligence before 2030, do you think we should revive him ASAP, or wait and do it in 2030?

I don’t think he was super interested in AI, more trans humanism and biology related things.

The future is going to have a lot more speaker grilles with screwdriver stab marks in them.

Reminds me of the movie "Demolition Man", where everything was assisted by AIs.

Not enough ads and push to spend, I'm afraid.

Did anyone else got a 15MM tingling feeling in the beginning of reading this or was it just me?

Neo-Luddism is going to be a popular term in the years to come.

I lost it at "shower buddy"

> Real coffee costs more than your coffee maker nowadays, so it has to suffice.

That’s definitely the bad place

Ballardian.

No remote work?

H2G2

This is classified as satire but it's not much so, we're already halfway there.

The best satire is all too true to life.

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