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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967)
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- lencastre 3y agoI’d love to see a match between HAL9000 and AM
- alekseiprokopev 3y agoEven though the novel is centered around an AI torturing humans. The more existential horror emerges from the realization that the AI antagonist, originally designed as a military tool, is trapped within its own programming and unable to transcend its foundational purpose. This makes one think about a parallel with humans.
- throwaway9274 3y agoEarly depictions of AI doom are fascinating because the Christian origins of the myth are not yet well-concealed. In the same way that Kurzweil portrays the Heaven of the singularity, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an excellent Dante-esque exploration of the concept of Hell. These unconscious cultural archetypes can be both illuminating and distorting, and I wonder how the relative literary diets of Gen Z, Millenials, Gen X, and the Boomers affect their thinking on AI risks.
- Something1234 3y agoHonestly I would really like to see a breakdown of the literary diets of each generation, and recommendations. Would be fun to read and try to embrace each perspective.
- madengr 3y ago[dead]
- sillywalk 3y agoHas anybody played the videogame adaptation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
- ticulatedspline 3y agoBeen in my GOG backlog for ages, I think I got it as a freebie.