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Re: Super Intelligence

From Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english, rec.arts.tv
Subject Re: Super Intelligence
Date 2026-10-02 20:01 -0300
Organization Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop
Message-ID <87a4ovpv0g.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> (permalink)
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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.

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

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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  Re: Super Intelligence guido wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> - 2026-09-30 10:14 +0200
    Re: Super Intelligence Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-09-30 18:37 +1000
      Re: Super Intelligence The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-09-30 13:34 -0700
      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
    Re: Super Intelligence Silvano <Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> - 2026-09-30 12:23 +0200
      Re: Super Intelligence "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-10-01 17:22 +0200
        Re: Super Intelligence Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-10-01 20:07 +0100
          Re: Super Intelligence Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-10-02 09:21 +0200
        Re: Super Intelligence Silvano <Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> - 2026-10-01 22:52 +0200
        Re: Super Intelligence The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-01 22:26 -0700
          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
        Re: Super Intelligence The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-01 22:27 -0700
        Re: Super Intelligence The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-01 22:30 -0700
          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
            Re: Super Intelligence Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-02 22:57 +0800
            Re: Super Intelligence The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-03 12:53 -0700
      Re: Super Intelligence The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-01 22:22 -0700
        Re: Super Intelligence HenryWilson <Hgw@home.com> - 2026-10-02 12:07 +0000
    Re: Super Intelligence The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-09-30 13:30 -0700

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