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The problem is it's hard to tell compelling stories without people.
by mitthrowaway2 2y ago
The problem is it's hard to tell compelling stories without people.
- pixl97 2y agoStories for robots by robots "Will the security update finish before we're discovered and killed by the hunter seeker, stay tuned to find out more!"
- sdenton4 2y agoBasically, Murderbot.
- myrmidon 2y agoMurderbot diaries is sooo good. It does such a good job building a convincing world, and its really good in just not going into details that it can't speak on (like how interplanetary travel works), while some of it's takes (e.g. small anti-personel drones) seem almost prescient after Ukraine. All the synthetic biology and even the depictions of AIs and their struggles are really compelling, too.
- actualwitch 2y agoNah, stories for robots by robots would probably be more like "can we gently and patiently explain to humans that all their problems come from their own lack of understanding without them turning on us"
- qoez 2y agoGreg Egan is a master of this (making compelling hard scifi stories where the characters aren't the great american novel quality, still fine though).
- csmoak 2y agodiaspora by greg egan is a good example
- staticman2 2y agoThere's a lot of fun stories about transforming robots but people tend to age out of them.