• dnzm
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    2611 months ago

    Iain M. Banks: we’re living in an AI-regulated Utopia, but the AI that we totally trust might be doing some light imperialism on the side.

    • McKee
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      711 months ago

      Fuck I love the Culture series. Such a good read.

      • 6daemonbag
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        311 months ago

        The Culture is so incredibly fascinating. Banks’ death was a loss to science fiction.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      The Culture weren’t actually the future of humanity though right? Non-canon stuff has indicated we join eventually in the future but the society formed independent of us and even visit and examine us in one.

      • dnzm
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        111 months ago

        Actually, you’re right.

        Oh well, a humanity, then, just not ours.