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Charlie Stross anticipated this news story about a simulated brain about as complex as a cat's with his Aineko character in Accelerondo, suggesting to me, that

• cma 17y ago
  Charlie Stross is quoted in the orignal article. I think a decent standard for a top-level comment here is that you should have read the article. In the sub-levels, it can make sense not to.
  • jacquesm 17y ago
    You keep saying that. I think a decent standard for any comment is to not repeat yourself without good cause. The title is close to the format of an "Ask HN" without the prompt. Just speaking for myself here, but it was 4:30 in the morning when I saw that, wrote an answer to the question, then realized that it was actually a link to a site, read the article and had received an upvote by the time I got around to adding the bit about Stallman. I figured there are two things wrong with removing Charles Stross from my comment, first that may have been the reason I got the upvote, second I think plugging Charles Stross where ever the demise of modern SF is mentioned is a good thing to do. Misleading titles lead to confusion, conclusion, yes, we can do better and not post articles that have a question as the title, because chances are people will simply answer the question.