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The Three Cardinal Sins • /r/libraryofshadows
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Author: u/traverseda With dread but cautious optimism*
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URL: http://www.reddit.com/r/libraryofshadows/comments/2qzyn4/the_three_cardinal_sins/
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Score: 11
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Created: 2015-01-01T19:05:47
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u/traverseda [+2] With dread but cautious optimism (4 hours later)
Pretty standard premise, but decently implemented.
u/None [+5] (15 hours later)
Also a nice demonstration of how horror lies in tone rather than content. As /u/CaptainLoggers commented, plenty of scifi has taken the same premise and turned it into adventure rather than horror.
Mind, I really liked the statement that the Machine(s) simply did not care enough to exterminate humanity. They just built themselves spaceships and left, post-haste.
u/CaptainLoggers [+2] (12 hours later)
Reminds me of Dune, which was similarly a post war-against-thinking-machine society with such innovation discouraged religiously.
u/JackStargazer [+2] Primordial Apologist (a day later)
The third rule specifically is a reminder of what came out of the Butlerian Jihad: Thou Shalt Not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Warhammer 40k too, as a result of the war with the Iron Men, has a similar rule.