MrLLM@ani.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhich computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?message-squaremessage-square131linkfedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down11
arrow-up199arrow-down1message-squareWhich computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?MrLLM@ani.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square131linkfedilink
minus-squareThePyroPython@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoEh can one really copyright the idea of an emergent machine spirit when engineers from the industrial revolution were already ascribing personalities to machines and Assimov had already wrote about machine ghosts?
minus-squareRecursiveParadox@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoYes yes, but did they have Voodoo!?
minus-squareRecursiveParadox@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThe intelligence AGIs. They adopt voodoo as a metaphor for how they work, so humans can (somewhat) understand it.
minus-squareThePyroPython@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoThat sounds familiar, I take it that was in Neuromancer? It’s been a while since I read that book and The Difference Engine.
minus-squareRecursiveParadox@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoSecond book in the same trilogy as Neuromancer - Count Zero.
Eh can one really copyright the idea of an emergent machine spirit when engineers from the industrial revolution were already ascribing personalities to machines and Assimov had already wrote about machine ghosts?
Yes yes, but did they have Voodoo!?
Who do?
The intelligence AGIs. They adopt voodoo as a metaphor for how they work, so humans can (somewhat) understand it.
That sounds familiar, I take it that was in Neuromancer? It’s been a while since I read that book and The Difference Engine.
Second book in the same trilogy as Neuromancer - Count Zero.