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I read Snow Crash growing up. It is a wonderful weird cyberpunk novel that (metaverse aside, unfortunately) turned out to be kind of Nostradamusly. Easy read. H

• michaelbuckbee 3y ago
  With the recent advancements in LLM/AI, I've been thinking more and more about Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" (also titled "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer"). One of the major plot points is the development of a sophisticated interactive book that patiently individually educates and entertains one of the characters; greatly positively impacting her life. We're much closer to being able to build that now than we were 6 months ago.
  • atlasunshrugged 3y ago
    Yes, me too! Soon we might have real 'Ractives' -- of course with all the baggage that comes along with them, probably with developing world actors creating the custom content for the wealthiest
  • monkeydust 3y ago
    Funny half way through it after it came recommended on one of the many LLM threads on HN a month or so ago
  • richk449 3y ago
    Not just much closer - it seems inevitable that something close will be built in the next year. Khan academy, beast academy, and Wikipedia show that we are already close. I don’t think people at red grappling with how much this will change society.
  • idontwantthis 3y ago
    It's kind of wild how he guessed that we'd have generative stories before we'd have perfect human voice production.