1. La apropiación de nombres y la ironía del legado.
Existe una tendencia recurrente entre los emprendedores tecnológicos de utilizar nombres del legendarium de Tolkien para sus empresas, a menudo ignorando la postura del autor frente a la industrialización.
- Tolkien expressed no small amount of skepticism concerning technology and industrialization in his writings. Thus, its more than just a little ironic that tech bros and silicon valley entrepreneurs have co-opted names like Anduril, Palantir, and even Sauron for their companies.
- Silicon valley loves their middle earth references, dont they? Heres one for them every engineer who helped create LLMs are like Celebrimbor driven by vanity and the need to be the greatest crafters that they willing made dangerous things that were easily subverted by evil.
2. La desconexión entre la lectura y la interpretación.
Muchos críticos señalan que los líderes de Silicon Valley no comprenden profundamente los temas de la obra de Tolkien, enfocándose únicamente en la estética o en una lectura superficial influenciada por las adaptaciones cinematográficas.
- Silicon valley loves to reference Tolkien but cant be bothered to thoughtfully read his work. It really is their bible.
- Im convinced no one in silicon valley actually read Lord of the Rings, but its the only fantasy series they talk about bc there were a bunch of movies and you can reference wikipedia for the more obscure bullshit.
3. La percepción de Silicon Valley como una entidad distópica.
La comunidad observa con preocupación cómo las empresas tecnológicas, al adoptar nombres como Palantir o Sauron, parecen encarnar los mismos valores de vigilancia y control que Tolkien advirtió en sus escritos.
- Not silicon valley, but silicon reich. Reminds me of Mordor here. The story of the Lord of the Teslas.
- Silicon valley built the evil sphere from LotR and the government is going full Eye of Sauron with the technology.
- Tolkien obviously would have hated silicon valley generally, and these particular guys specifically.