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travisgriggsyesterday at 5:05 PM3 repliesview on HN

We also associate laboratories with evil scientists and Frankenstein and the like. I can just hear Boris Karloff (er Bobby Picket) uttering “I was working in the lab late one night. When my eyes beheld an eerie sight… … … …the monster mash”. If anything, I associate _uncertainty_ with labs. The result is never known up front, they’re a place of discovery.

But I get your meaning. What should they be called instead? AI Sausage Factories maybe (cue Upton Sinclair?)?


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Avicebronyesterday at 5:12 PM

> What should they be called instead? AI Sausage Factories maybe (cue Upton Sinclair?)?

That's actually great? Slaughterhouses killing off the collective genius of humanity and grinding it into a bland paste for mass consumption.

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whatshisfaceyesterday at 7:38 PM

By that definition, wall street would be a lab, and so would be a casino. I guess we could call them, "data refineries."

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boothbytoday at 12:26 AM

The Aibittoir, perhaps