[Terr_]

I want that to be how things work, although recent history has not been favorable when it comes to Public Key Infrastructure as applied to individuals. Inconvenience, foot-guns, required technical expertise levels, the pain of revocation lists...

[iugtmkbdfil834]

In a sense, it seems Accellerando got a lot more right than not ( reputation markets in this particular case ). We may be arguing over the best way to do it, but it seems that the conclusion was already drawn.

[Kim_Bruning]

How is it that no one is noticing that it's the lobsters who escaped!

How prescient is that?

* http://www.accelerando.org/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.h...

[iugtmkbdfil834]

To be fair, it was something of a marketing master stroke to adopt claw as a symbol. Admittedly, it does make me uneasy the same way Kamala's writers dressed her up in Lisa Simpson's clothes ( episode when she is a president ), but... you have a point. We are a weird mix of pop culture memes becoming so intertwined it is hard to separate them at times.

[Ancapistani]

Ugh.

If this isn’t part of Crustafarianism, it should be.

[Kim_Bruning]

Agreed!

So I actually poked Steinberg and Stross.

Sadly Steinberg hasn't read it, and Stross denies LLMs are a thing.

[Ancapistani]

Someone here recommended Accelerando about a month ago - I’m sitting in an airport now reading it. It’s… deep. Probably one of the two deepest sci-fi novels I’ve ever read, beat only by Blindsight.

I’m not finished yet though, so that order could change :)

[iugtmkbdfil834]

I read it after Prime Intellect during my AI binge. I think the initial feeling I got from it was the same as I did during first read of Snow Crash. Familiar world, and yet everything is very, very different so you feel more like an explorer than anything else.