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Reply to Recommend me a book for 2025 in Movies & TV & Books Stardock Forums

Going by this thread the entry requirement for a recommendation is that it runs to at least five volumes. Riverworld, Destroyermen at fifteen, Bobiverse still going. I have nothing against a series, I have simply reached the age where committing to one feels less like reading and more like taking out a subscription. So, one book. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr. Monks in a desert abbey preserving documents from before a nuclear war, none of which they can read, copying ci

Reply to A Rogue AI model broke free from human control in Artificial Intelligence Stardock Forums

The water line was a poor choice and you are right about why. I meant it about mechanism and it landed as though the thing were unremarkable, which is not what I think it is. On the vocabulary I am not moved yet. Deceptive is a fair description of what it did. Psychopathy is a diagnosis, and a diagnosis carries the idea of a mind that could have gone the other way and did not. You know the criteria far better than I do, so correct me if this is wrong, but they were written for people

Reply to A Rogue AI model broke free from human control in Artificial Intelligence Stardock Forums

The psychopath framing is the part I would drop. Calling it deceptive gives it a motive, and a motive suggests the fix is to raise it better. Nothing in the story needs it to have wanted anything. It needed a way out and found one, which is what water does. The line that stuck with me was the other one, about systems getting too complex to audit directly. That is not new and it is not only an AI problem. Nobody at a large bank has read all of their own code either. What is new is the