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Really good, and I love the wikipedia format for this. It's a great trope allowing the author to gesture at related topics in a format we're all familiar with.
by habitue 6y ago
Really good, and I love the wikipedia format for this. It's a great trope allowing the author to gesture at related topics in a format we're all familiar with.
I think the expectation of a neutral tone from a wikipedia article makes it even more chilling. All of the actions of the experimenters are described dispassionately, as if describing experiments on a beetle.
Robin Hanson wrote a (nominally non-fiction) book about economies of copied minds like this[1]
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Em https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Em
- flotzam 6y ago... inspiring that famous song "The Contract Drafting Em" - The special horror when your employer has root on your brain: https://secularsolstice.github.io/Contract_Drafting_Em/gen/ https://secularsolstice.github.io/Contract_Drafting_Em/gen/
- ncmncm 6y agoThe Wikipedia format made me imagine the cloud of article improvements reverted by idle, self-important Wikipedia editors.
- petschge 6y agoOne of the commenters even made it look like a wikipedia page. See https://dump.cy.md/4042875593f06aa0cbe7722295831c10/Screenshot_2121-02-22%20MMAcevedo%20-%20Wikipedia.png https://dump.cy.md/4042875593f06aa0cbe7722295831c10/Screensh...