2) I have a headcanon idea where the escaped simulations somehow end up causing an AI apocalypse in the world simulating them, but (a) I don't quite see how you'd write it and (b) it doesn't quite work from a story style perspective. I do like the idea of apocalyptic self-unboxing AI just being a weird and sympathetic computer game bug though.
3) is the peanut butter tiramisu thing real? Doesn't seem like they'd go together (but maybe that's why it took 90 iterations to find it?)
I think that superintelligent AI's are really hard to write in general. This particular story felt doable because it was just simulations of humans who escaped, and it felt like they were the scrappy underdogs. I think an interesting sequel could be one in which they have to problem-solve while living in the cloud though!
Peanut butter tiramisu is something I just made up ;) But I googled it just now and it looks like people have made it before! You should go for it :)
I was half expecting the peanut butter tiramisu to be some horrible sneaky memetic virus disguised as a recipe... ;)
This was great fun. Thank you. If people enjoyed this I can recommend a sci-fi book called Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre, about people who find themselves trapped in video games. He generally writes near-future crime fiction but this book is much more interesting societally and technologically.
This was superb, thank you for sharing
1) This is fantastic, thank you
2) I have a headcanon idea where the escaped simulations somehow end up causing an AI apocalypse in the world simulating them, but (a) I don't quite see how you'd write it and (b) it doesn't quite work from a story style perspective. I do like the idea of apocalyptic self-unboxing AI just being a weird and sympathetic computer game bug though.
3) is the peanut butter tiramisu thing real? Doesn't seem like they'd go together (but maybe that's why it took 90 iterations to find it?)
Haha thanks for reading!
I think that superintelligent AI's are really hard to write in general. This particular story felt doable because it was just simulations of humans who escaped, and it felt like they were the scrappy underdogs. I think an interesting sequel could be one in which they have to problem-solve while living in the cloud though!
Peanut butter tiramisu is something I just made up ;) But I googled it just now and it looks like people have made it before! You should go for it :)
I was half expecting the peanut butter tiramisu to be some horrible sneaky memetic virus disguised as a recipe... ;)
This was great fun. Thank you. If people enjoyed this I can recommend a sci-fi book called Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre, about people who find themselves trapped in video games. He generally writes near-future crime fiction but this book is much more interesting societally and technologically.
I had not heard of Bedlam or the author, thank you for the rec! Will put it on my reading list :)
That was really good. Reminds me a lot of one of my favourite SCP stories: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/introductory-antimemetics
I loved There Is No Antimemetics Division, and thought it was brilliant!
I have not, but I have some potatoes in the kitchen so maybe I'll give it a try...
If there's no addendum to this comment then you can assume I'm trapped in M-space :)