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Awful bastard hacker strikes a death blow against an evil corporation from beyond the grave. Very cyberpunk.
by mcpackieh 3y ago
Awful bastard hacker strikes a death blow against an evil corporation from beyond the grave. Very cyberpunk.
- bozhark 3y agocyberpunk would have faked their death a year before the hack…
- toyg 3y agoYou mean uploading their consciousness before killing their body.
- sitkack 3y agoPutting the "crypt" in Cryptopunk.
- itake 3y agoDeath blow? I saw their ad last week in the App Store.
- mcpackieh 3y agoHuh, I thought for sure they were defunct.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoLike in that scene in The Terminator (1984), when the skin of the titular assassin melts/burns off/whatever, and it is revealed for what it truly is: a machine. Here, the "death blow" to a corporation reveals its true nature: an artificial intelligence. Implemented in bureaucracy and economics, executing on a runtime that's literally made of humans as processing units. C-suite, employees, customers, partners - all just execution substrate. So yeah, you'd think that this corporate entity was dead already - but it was never alive in the first place. Unlike the humans opposing it, it doesn't need to be.
- AbrahamParangi 3y agoHeh. The fact that other arbitrary intelligences can run on the human substrate is evidence for the Turing-completeness of humans.