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## Free Radical (The Dangers of bad utility functions, well written AI, and cyberpunk)
* Author: u/traverseda *With dread but cautious optimism**
* URL: http://www.shamusyoung.com/shocked/
* Score: 15
* Created: 2014-07-23T21:23:40
### Post:
[Link to content](http://www.shamusyoung.com/shocked/)
### Comments:
> **u/traverseda** [+2] *With dread but cautious optimism* (5 minutes later)
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> Repost, but I don't think it got nearly enough attention last time.
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> It's damn good cyberpunk, written by a programmer. An actual honest to gods programmer. Which puts the technology a head above most cyberpunk, which is a weird sort of dystopia fetishism.
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> I don't think I'd be spoiling it if I told you that AI was the central conflict of the story. But he does a very good job deconstructing the "[A.I. Is a Crapshoot](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AIIsACrapshoot)" trope.
> **u/alexanderwales** [+1] *Time flies like an arrow* (7 minutes later)
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> I read this a while back. I enjoyed it a lot, but thought that the first third/half was better than what followed - in part because this is a fictionalization of a videogame, and it sort of shows. It lends a lot of believability to the cyberpunk setting.
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