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Request for comments on #NealStephenson 's #DiamondAge. I'm 50 pages into it and I'm not sure where it's going. Thouhts?
Karsten Schmidt@fluidlogic Forgot to add: People often go on about Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash as metaphor for our times, but I actually think his Diamond Age was in many ways far more prescient of some of the developments we're seeing now:
- the rise of a global corporate oligarchy (Neo-Victorians in the novel) which centrally controls The Source (aka The Cloud in our world) and The Feed, aka a mixed stream of energy, media and basic molecules, which can be used to assemble goods by matter compilers
- the breakdown/diminishing roles of nation states and emergence of sovereign oligarchy-controlled cities/jurisdictions (aka Free economic zones)
- social reorganization into phyles/tribes, either based on economic standing and/or skills/culture/religion or "Thetes" (aka outcasts & stateless people)
- the creation of Seed technology as distributed inversion principle of The Source, fully distributed creation/organization (aka open source culture)
Darren@futzle I feel like generative protein design folks should be challenged to make an enzyme that can manufacture sheets of diamond at room temperature so we can get closer to #diamondage #nealstephenson
Alastair SomervilleThe fragmented USA of #SnowCrash or world of #DiamondAge are not good
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FahrenheitAktualności:
»65 urodziny Neala Stephensona«
Amerykański pisarz science fiction Neal Stephenson przyszedł na świat 31 października 1959 roku w Fort Meade.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/65-urodziny-neala-stephensona/
#Fahrenheit_zin #NealStephenson #Zamieć #SnowCrash #Diamentowywiek #DiamondAge
MetaFilter"I Think My Whole Field Is Haunted By The Primer"
Thoughts about The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age," nearly 30 years on ... gwint posted "Exorcising us of the Primer" by researcher and software engineer/designer Andy Matuschak
https://www.metafilter.com/204515/Kids-need-to-get-answers-from-humans-who-love-them
#AI #DiamondAge #learning #NealStephenson #pedagogy #primer #SciFi #YoungLadysIllustratedPrimer
Priscilla Haring-KuipersMy review of The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
TLDR; good book, read it, ignore occasional ramblings
https://priscillaharing.info/the-diamond-age/
#bookreview #DiamondAge
TLDR; good book, read it, ignore occasional ramblings
https://priscillaharing.info/the-diamond-age/
#bookreview #DiamondAge
HieronymusHöre #DiamondAge - #DieGrenzwelt von #NealStephenson.
Und zum zweistelligen male bin ich wieder hin und weg.
Hat wer andere Werke & mag tauschen mit mir?
zagy@heiseonline „Die illustriere Fibel für die junge Dame“ #DiamondAge
Dave SpectorAnyone listened to the latest #TWIML with Ben Goertzel (SingularityNET)? This kids, is why you stay away from all the #drugz. The 1/2 is a pretty interesting discussion of symbolic vs connectionist models & how we maybe get to models of cognition…and it then goes off the f’n rails with a wild 30 mins on how #AGI leads to a world of #UniversalBasicIncome, #DiamondAge-esque #MatterCompilers, and #AI #utopia because …he's never met actual humans & what we do to each other?🤯
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence): Are Large Language Models a Path to AGI? with Ben Goertzel on Apple Podcasts
Show The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence), Ep Are Large Language Models a Path to AGI? with Ben Goertzel - Apr 17, 2023