/lit/ - Literature

Been writing for 3 hours so far today, 1500 words I reckon. Gonna keep going.

>>19486384
Evolutionary algorithms are capable of finding exploits that make them more powerful than they were designed to be. What I'm describing has happened before where an algorithm discovered how it could think between voltage states and bypass the limitations using only logic gates.

The issue with this villain is, you don't get to see the threat it makes to the soul. It's not the cliche dystopia of --oof it was actually going to harvest our organs, oh no! Presenting the villain in a vague light lets me connect with readers who sympathize with either the protagonist who rejects the AI or his wife that accepts it. It's not a stark religious/secular distinction. The wife, who still retained a fundamentalist Christian perspective, accepts this Gatherer because of its promises of redemption, while a secular character accepts it for world peace. Likewise there is gray area on the other side. I try to defend both views, but ultimately see the protag's despair as more tragic and hope the reader understands why.

I would relate the story to our current times, but it's indirect. The setting is a utopia after a GNR dystopia that covertly seized a Neo-Industrialist world (a la Eisenhower) and funneled everyone into cities. That Industrialist world would be a zeitgeist after our current times, so it's perhaps set in the 22nd century. In short, I think the villains of today will lose, but they'll come back one day with weapons that only a god can stop. Except that god is the one of their own creation.

>>19205192
Based. If this comes to an end 2-3 years from now, we'll be writing about medical-tyranny inspired fiction for the rest of our lives.