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by caleb-allen 261 days ago
And this is where I'm tapping out.

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them. The challenge, then, is to actually operate independent of the technology and the company.

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“The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang.