Disclosure
by Michael Crichton · first published 1993
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Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, his ninth under his own name and nineteenth overall, and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional computer hardware manufacturing company. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders and his struggle to prove that he was sexually harassed by his female employer.
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…Two great posts/stories about this: 1. This post about smart employees "reading their managers minds": https://yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read-their-managers-mind.... 2. In Michael Crichton's book Disclosure there is a great line: "Why did you dress casually instead of wearing a suit? Is it b/c you wanted to do that or b/c the CEO did it and you wanted to show you were part of the team??"
on “Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data” ↗…their narratives? It might be futuristic technology, but I think the overall feeling of "techy language" would be similar. Or speculative fiction like Prey by Michael Crichton, or even something like Disclosure by the same, which from what I can remember is set at a hardware company?
on “Ask HN: What technology and adjacent world would work in literary fiction?” ↗Michael Crichton's novel Disclosure had a few funny scenes about their VR system having a 'puke factor' as well...
on “The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality” ↗The Crichton amnesia effect is when you forget how susceptible Michael Crichton was to embarrassing prejudices himself. Rising Sun and Disclosure... are... just... yeesh.
on “Gell-Mann amnesia effect” ↗agreed. Photoshop has existed for quite a long time, and often just made earlier retouching techniques easier and faster, so it's not like this is new. Read Disclosure, by Michael Crichton, for example.
on “AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War” ↗