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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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@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BioMan Real life mirroring a Peter Watts plot point is always deeply uncomfortable; real life mirroring a _Rifters_ plot point is even worse. :-/
(Computer viruses and neural net spam filters in competitive evolution end up propagating something specific through the whole 'net due to weird founder effects. The Rifters trilogy is ...notably bleak, I think is the way to put it)
Peter Watts is fascinating. His misanthropy colors a lot of things, but one thing about him that really sets his fiction apart in a positive way is he really takes evolution seriously