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MMAcevedo
- amptorn 4y agoThe story's name is "Lena", not "MMAcevedo".
- MengerSponge 4y agoAnd that's a reference to the (now deprecated) reference image of Lena scanned from Playboy magazine.
- wintorez 4y agoI went from bored to confused to fascinated to horrified in matter of minutes.
- peddling-brink 4y agoRead more of qntm’s stuff. It’s really good.
- hnbad 4y agoI experienced all four of these emotional states when I read the word "tebibyte" in a story set at least 50-ish years in the future.
- ncr100 4y agoFuture history, mind-machine manipulation, scary.
- jsnell 4y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224835
- saagarjha 4y agoThis is one of my favorite science fiction short stories, simply by how matter-of-fact it is and how reasonable it sounds. A lot of science fiction requires jumps in human nature (global cooperation? An obvious "good"? Everyone has turned into a self-centered egotist?) but this one just moves predictably, if horrifyingly.
- lloeki 4y agoSame vein, same kind of progressively horrifying pacing. It reads oh so easily and has been the basis of many many technical, philosophical, and theological discussions with friends, some of which were dead on "not into science fiction", and which this story changed their mind about. https://qntm.org/responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibility
- PoignardAzur 4y agoI love the list of "See Also" articles at the end. So evocative.
- isoprophlex 4y agoIncredible, thanks for sharing. Qntm's longer works of fiction are highly recommended, too!
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoImagine an instance of MMAcevedo running under homomorphic encryption [1] on a cloud service. In this case, is the cloud service an unwilling and unknowing participant in slavery and torture? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
- sbierwagen 4y agoAmusingly enough, another qntm story also mentions human emulations running in homomorphic encrypted computing environment, though to say which would be a Spoiler.
- gmuslera 4y agoThose that promote the idea of having Digital Selves are making a typo there. The right term is Digital Slaves.
- kibwen 4y agoHere's what I believe to be a superior presentation of this story, formatted as a Wikipedia article: https://dump.cy.md/4042875593f06aa0cbe7722295831c10/Screenshot_2121-02-22%20MMAcevedo%20-%20Wikipedia.png https://dump.cy.md/4042875593f06aa0cbe7722295831c10/Screensh...
- ncmncm 4y agoThis person also wrote "There is no anti-mimetics division", a terrifying SCP file.
- KurvaKing 4y ago