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Makes sense from eloi/morlock perspective, but I think it’s too late now. I didn’t make up the terms btw. Unclear origin somewhere in 2013. Counter case: current usage maps better to social class if not to architecture. Fun fact: among Discworld dwarves, “down” is higher status
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@vgr I'm not sure if you heard this criticism from others, but I believe the "above" and "below" the API definitions need to be flipped. Being above the API should mean that you are controlled by it. Being below it should mean you are telling robots what to do.
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🙂 Snow crash was 1992, the essay was 1999. I expect he thought the idea through and connected it to eloi/morlock in the interim. Worth a read. He explicitly points out that in his version, the tech morlocks would be a rare advanced species unlike in Wells’ original