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Free Radical (The Dangers of bad utility functions, well written AI, and cyberpunk)
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Author: u/traverseda With dread but cautious optimism*
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Score: 14
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Created: 2014-07-23T21:23:40
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u/traverseda [+2] With dread but cautious optimism*
Repost, but I don't think it got nearly enough attention last time. 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. 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" trope.
u/alexanderwales [+1] Time flies like an arrow*
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.