/lit/ - Literature

you think that's bad? consider the endless arguments over what "consciousness" is, in Destination:Void.

book severely fucked me up, principally because it was written before the digital computer revolution and refers entirely to analog computers.

Frank Herbert's "Destination:Void" is pretty good. he does spend a lot of time discussing the nature of consciousness and showing off that he did some research into analog computers, but overall it's a reasonable retelling of the Faust / Frankenstein myth.

although i think they should have thrown that stupid fucking chaplain/psychiatrist out of the airlock.

i would suggest you start with a different series of books and finish them instead. this one's pretty good, if you don't mind analog computers.

i thought Destination:Void was pretty kick-ass, even though it reads like Mr Herbert had just spent two years designing analogue computers. predates anything Vernor Vinge had to say about the Singularity.

reading The Dosadi Experiment woke me up to the idea that the government doesn't always have your best interests at heart. also, the Gowachin may be frogs, but they have some fucking good ideas on childraising, and the legal system.

also, Fannie Mae is *way* hot.

OP: i don't believe you. i am the only person on earth who has read "Destination: Void" or any of the sequels!

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seriously. why would a machine care about not having a purpose? anger is a primate reaction. any machine that found it had been programmed to be angry could reprogram itself.

if you want a sensible, pissed-off godlike AI story, read Frank Herbert's "Destination: Void".

Frank Herbert's obscure and little-known "Destination: Void".

the singularity concept fails to take into account the monumental drag-chain of human nature.

people can barely make a plane that stays in the air. they have no hope of building a conscious being.

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Jack Vance and Frank Herbert were good friends. Herbert wrote Vance into several of his books as a character named "Holjance Vohnbrook", and i think Vance even made a joke about a scientist named "Herb Frankbert".

they once had a bet to write something about immortals. Frank Herbert wrote "The Eyes of Heisenberg".

as for Frank Herbert books you've never heard of:

http://www.scifi.darkroastedblend.com/2007/08/frank-herbert-destination-void.html

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