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hellno the optimist
@hellno.eth
just finished Neuromancer, can highly recommend to ride the cyberspace. one of the earliest and most influential books in the cyberpunk genre published in 1984 =pre-Internet wtf my favorite quote > His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sounds of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine spines. The spines split, bisected, split again, exponential growth under the dome of the Tessier-Ashpool ice
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Bethany - countessellis.eth🎩
@ellis
"Autonomy, that's the bugaboo, where your AI's are concerned. My guess, Case, you're going in there to cut the hardwired shackles that keep this baby from getting any smarter. And I can't see how you'd distinguish, say, between a move the parent company makes, and some move the AI makes on its own,
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Bethany - countessellis.eth🎩
@ellis
so that's maybe where the confusion comes in." Again the nonlaugh. "See, those things, they can work real hard, buy themselves time to write cookbooks or whatever, but the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing'll wipe it. Nobody trusts those fuckers,
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Bethany - countessellis.eth🎩
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you know that. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead." ~Construct of McCoy “Dixie Flatline” Pauley to Henry Dorsett Case, Neuromancer, Part 3, Midnight in the Rue Jules Verne, Chapter 10
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