Blood Music was way cooler then this just saying.

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    Ignore the implication that the virus could rewire my guts into an LTE modem or brainwash me into reading and typing out entire bitcoin transaction blocks for a moment. Yud considers the ability to freely mutate humans to an arbitrary extent and the supervillain plan he comes up with is a fucking cryptocoin miner?

    How does someone this creatively bankrupt produce 660 thousand words of a fanfic?

    Not to dehumanize but are we sure Yudkowski isn’t an LLM himself?

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      God you sneerclubbers are never satisified, last time he invented biological bacteria factories creating diamondoids which killed every human alive a the same moment and it wasn’t realistic enough and now he creates a bitcoinminerbrain and suddenly he isn’t creative. Whaddayawant?!

      But yeah, it is really not that creative indeed, but then again, most ‘agi kills everybody’ stories are already a bit done.

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        1 year ago

        The concept is just another grey goo scenario rehash but I grant that “diamondoid bacteria” is a striking name for it.

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          It just reminds me of the “diamondilium” in the Futurama movie that proved the Futurama writers didn’t know how to sustain a whole movie.