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Re-reading I think a foundational sci-fi book in this AI hysteria present is Accelerando by @cstross
One of the most plausible feeling 'and then it all kicks off' explorations of an ai accelerated future.
Read it WAY too many times!
@scottgal ... And it's a novel the techbros ALWAYS fucking misread, missing out the point that by the end of the novel the human species is more or less extinct (the ones who miss this are the ones who don't realize they're in the same boat as the rest of us, and it's sinking) ...
@[email protected] @[email protected] I once heard someone say straight faced that they were excited to see 'the beginnings of Accelerando coming true' (exact wording might be incorrect, it was a couple of years ago). I was... surprised? Baffled? I felt something, at least. And it wasn't excited.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Probably doesn't really need saying that they were a founder who had just received funding for an AI start up.
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