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Re: Super Intelligence

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On 03/10/2026 01:01, Mike Spencer wrote:
> occam <occam@nowhere.nix> writes:
> 
>> Have you read Neal Stepheson's cyberpunk novels 'Snow Crash' and
>> 'Cryptonomicon'? 
> 
> Multiple times.
> 
>> In there human agents don headgear and penetrate enemy
>> cyber-defences, a bit like (virtual) fighter pilots navigating a war
>> zone. Considering the novels were written in the 1990s - well before
>> current AI developments - they are quite visionary.
> 
> As a great Stephenson fan, I have to ask, aren't you getting your
> cyberpunks mixed up?  That kind of virtual space hacking was the
> central concept of William Gibson's 1984 'Neuromancer'. Both of
> Sephenson's novels are very different.

You are right. I have read Gibson's 'Neuromancer' too, and both readings
(Gibson, Stephenson) were more than 40 years ago. Some cross-wire there.

> 
> [ Nod to r.a.tv: Wikipedia says there's a tv series based on
> [ Neuromancer due to premiere in January.
> 

I look forward to that. The fact that Neuromancer was written in 1984 -
before AI /and/ the internet - makes it even more visionary.

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      Re: Super Intelligence occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-10-01 20:07 +0200
        Re: Super Intelligence Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-10-02 20:01 -0300
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          Re: Super Intelligence Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-10-02 09:21 +0200
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          Re: Super Intelligence "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-10-02 15:56 +0200
            Re: Super Intelligence The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-03 12:47 -0700
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          Re: Super Intelligence wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> - 2026-10-02 11:37 +0200
            Re: Super Intelligence Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-10-02 20:37 +1000
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