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> before it reached our drone ship, “Just Read the Instructions” Glad to see the Iain M Banks inspiration here.
by mmastrac 11y ago
> before it reached our drone ship, “Just Read the Instructions”
Glad to see the Iain M Banks inspiration here.
- ceejayoz 11y agoThe other ship is the "Of Course I Still Love You", too.
- FrameRate24 11y agoWhich Debut's on Sunday!! JRTI is retired :(
- wiredfool 11y agoI've always wondered -- is that read as in 'go read', or read as in past tense?
- arethuza 11y agoYou probably need to ask the GCU Just Read The Instructions I'm just hoping that his first ship to land on Mars is called The Ends of Invention
- ceejayoz 11y agoI just hope it doesn't have to be the You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave.
- brock_r 11y agoThey are meant to be a play on words, with several different possible meanings. In the books, the original AI's would get to name themselves after much reflection.
- comex 11y agoBut the "actual" names of the AIs would be in Marain, not English and thus likely wouldn't have the same syntactic ambiguity...
- AceJohnny2 11y agoLooks like I missed the newsbit in January when Musk did that to honor Banks: http://www.tor.com/2015/01/23/elon-musk-iain-m-banks-just-read-the-instructions/ http://www.tor.com/2015/01/23/elon-musk-iain-m-banks-just-re...