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> as far as we know Or maybe AI is here, and it's throwing out all these articles to hide its emergence. :)

• markyc 10y ago
  Ender's Game suggests such a genesis story for AI: born as a "spark" of self awareness in the world wide computer network where it developed silently for a while, before making itself known to humans
  • xyience 10y ago
    Oh wow, is that where that meme started? (All I know about Ender's Game is from https://web.archive.org/web/20110319084212/http://plover.net/~bonds/ender.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110319084212/http://plover.net...)
    • arcticfox 10y ago
      I don't know anything about the site you linked, but at face value, that article is absolutely awful. (Is it satire?) For example, the point at the end saying the book celebrates a guilt-free genocide. Not the point at all! OSC wrote the entire rest of the series about his main character grappling with the guilt of what he did.
    • khedoros 10y ago
      That's...an interesting take. The character they're talking about didn't appear in the first book. She was introduced later in the series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_%28Ender%27s_Game%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_%28Ender%27s_Game%29