What would a "counterculture of AI" look like?

This seems like a fun idea mostly if you’re already a programmer. From outside that culture, it sounds confusing.

If you happen to be a grey drone punching numbers in an ivory castle someplace, computers are an easy way to leverage your influence over the world, making it even more grey and dron-ey than before. If you’re a dionesian hedonist out there having fun, computer interfaces don’t generally offer much of a way to expand on that. Video games offer the illusion of those sensual pleasures, but they dont touch the experience itself.

Maybe if there were a specific example of what’s being offered here, I’d get more excited about it. This one seems like the spirit of 68 all over again…

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