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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 20:50:43 JST clacke

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   The book is a conspiracy mystery and a cloak-and-dagger romp across the solar system with hard-sci-fi space travel so grueling and time-consuming that only robots can handle it. It's also an interesting examination of where capitalism goes at its most inhuman -- when there aren't even any humans. And finally it's an examination of the human condition by entities both trying to be human and trying to stop being so human.

   It has loads of cool ideas -- how did we go about making slave androids, what happens to identity when you're an AI and can be copied, how do you create meaning when the people who defined your meaning went extinct? The world-building is creative and plausible. And the mystery has several unexpected twists of identity, allegiances and epic historical shifts.

   If you find this intriguing and you're not very sensitive to mental and physical abuse when it's important to plot and motivations, or weird forms and uses of sex that post-human entities will develop in the absence of humans and human morality, I can recommend this book.

   #SaturnsChildren #CharlesStross

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   JustAFrog (justafrog@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 21:15:31 JST JustAFrog

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   @futurebird Much to my sorrow, image searches now contain an extra workload for me, in that I need to analyze each one for "is this slop?" and I hate that so much.

   Often, the slop appeals more to people, so you get things based on it, which were made by a human.

   It seems very hard to stem the tide, if it's possible at all.

   Even after LLMs get dropped and nvidia dies, the garbage will stay with us for decades.