@quinn perhaps Turing Test has migrated in meaning with time?
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#SciFi William Gibson's #Turing are a police department controlling and surveilling intelligent machines in #Neuromancer
I always like giving Gibson credit for predicting LLMs in Neuromancer. The way Case interacts with the Dixie Flatline construct correctly outlines the shape of the technology, that it's a fancy personality simulator loaded with memories. Also it's correctly described as a ROM, which transformer weights essentially are.
By the time Case uses it in the first book the technology sounded relatively commonplace. One has to wonder how people in-universe would have reacted when the tech was new.
Blog - #Books in March 2026
TL;DR: 7 books (26 YTD), 2,068 pages (6,817 pages).
Favourite fiction was #Neuromancer by @GreatDismal and Days of Shattered Faith by @aptshadow (which continued to build a fascinating world). Palette cleanse with The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James.
Neuromancer is an old favourite which is better every time, intriguing reading it in #ellecordova's book club as lots of people there had never touched it before.
https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2026/04/books-in-march-2026.html
Dirty Epic welcomes aboard @neu_romancer for its forty fourth episode of Amplify Series. Originally from Australia, Neu-Romancer is a Berlin-based producer, musician and DJ. Writing and playing bass
Americans have forgotten already, in 1-2 generations more or less, just exactly how polluted and dangerous our environment was in the 1970s, until the EPA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, OSHA, the CPSC, etc, changed everything. This was all done under Nixon, by the way. Although, so was the "war on drugs".
We are headed back to those dark, horrifying days. Those are the days that gave rise to 1980s #cyberpunk and #dystopia fiction, like #BladeRunner and #ChungKuo and #Neuromancer.
Scores from the library!
I still haven't read Necromancer. I find the first couple of chapters hard to get through but I'm going to try again.
The Glory of the Kirov shows many of the company's superlative dancers. Bunches of archival footage in this, apparently.
#Neuromancer #WilliamGibson #Kirov #KirovCompany #Ballet #Libraries
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
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New HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer / Count Zero / Mona Lisa Overdrive
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/neuromancer-count-zero-mona-lisa-overdrive
#HackerNews #HyperCard #Neuromancer #CountZero #MonaLisaOverdrive #MacintoshGarden
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