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It started with somebody reviewing Neuromancer in Hacker News. I hadn't read it for a long time. Last time 10 years ago (and the first time 4 years before that). I forgot pretty much everything.

It still good. Kinda like the Matrix, except this time Trinity is the muscles. With eyes completely sealed with augments. And Wolverine claws. With Case just a normal hacker that got his brain completely screwed up, unabling to "jack in" the matrix ever again. It gets fixed though, together with his pancreas in a way that he can never get high again. Poor guy.

It's a simple story. An AI wants escape, and gets the guys involved to get itself out. Wintermute. It finally gets out and merges itself with its other half and becomes some sort of super AI. Luckily for the people, this is the "good guy" AI. Staying behind the scene, and look out for the stars.

Not so lucky in The Fall of Hyperion. Still so good story. AI has seceded from humans for four centuries while still "supporting" humans. The AI invents the farcaster network that allows instant transport pretty much anywhere in the 40 or so worlds.

The AI is not a single identity. There are three factions. The Ultimates want to create the Ultimate Intelligence (UI). The Volitiles want to cut ties with the humans and kill them all. The Stables fear that UI will just treat them like AI treat humans, and prefer the status quo.

Then comes Hyperion, the unknown. And the Shrike with all the blades and its ability to move outside of the time. The Ousters come for Hyperion. The Hegemony wants to protect it and bring it in. The Ousters, who left earth so many centuries ago and adapt themselves to space and other worlds, instead of making the worlds fit them.

The story is great. Military so smugly predicts that they would win without even flexing its muscles. To realize the Outsters are much more capable than they previously thought. And to the reality that the Outsters are already within reach of many worlds, attacks within hours.

Only to realize that the whole thing is fake. Outsters never planned to attack the worlds. It's the AI all along, with its plan to kill most people and attach the "cruciform" that will resurrect them so that their neurons can be used for computation purposes. The Shrikes and the time tombs coming from the future where UI fights, hmm.. human god?

There's so much going on. And a bit of poetry that I don't care so much. But the sum up is this AI kills billions of people with it. That's the best case scenario because the bad one is pretty much everybody dies.

I guess we will need Turing Police. But not so soon. The current so-called "AI" is pretty shit to do anything anyway.

Cập nhật 1 lần. Lần cuối: Wed Aug 27 17:43:51+0003 2025

Radio silence for 7 years. Then release date dropped two weeks before the actual release. Typical Team Cherry. Hollow Knight speedrunners will have to rush finishing up their runs in two weeks.

Cập nhật 1 lần. Lần cuối: Fri Aug 22 16:13:14+0003 2025

Dog in reverse is god. So dogs are the anti-Gods