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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Years ago, I wrote a science-fiction murder mystery novel. One of the plot threads was about the invention of AI, in the Data-from-Star-Trek kind of sense. I've been spending the past few days planning how to rip out that whole notion and replace it with a subplot about a different scientific discovery. I've been writing scenes to get back the old character voices and figure out how they might have changed, and to sketch new fictional science based on the actual science I've learned since my first go-around. This is after several weeks of binge-writing fanfiction, which I wholly endorse as a recreational activity. I don't know if I'm a better writer, but I'm definitely one who has written more words.
So, that might be keeping me busy. Of course, I'll still be around to ban people who deserve it and to cruelly mock them in the process.
Good luck with your novel!
Thanks! All I'm really hoping for is that it'll be fun.
Edit to add: I just ran the stats on my
redux.txtfile, and my word count since Thursday is over 9000.:-P
Going on a tangent from this... Its funny how much AI-related sci-fi is feeling increasing quaint (and often foolishly optimistic).
You know what depiction of AI has held up, and maybe makes even more sense in light of modern AI? Star Wars' take on Droid. Prior to LLMs it seems obvious that droids were sentient and deserving of rights. Post LLMs... it seems pretty plausible you could get something like C3PO that blabbers on but lacks any meaningful sentience or sapience. Also, it seemed obviously idiotic the way the Trade Federation had humanoid droids acting as pilots and gunners instead of building proper autopilots and targeting system. But after seeing LLMs get shoved everywhere, I totally could imagine a megacorp shoving droids built from standardized pretrained modules into all kinds of applications they aren't fit for.