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Hey /lit/, what do y'all think of this? Just taking a break from reading it, it's pretty fucking awesome.

It's a short story about a maniacal AI in a post-apocalyptic setting.
The entire text is here:

http://s93834343.onlinehome.us/ihnmaims.txt

Seems like it's worth a read.

>> No.888104
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in B4 "You Mad" macros

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".

>> No.888106

>>888104
just read the story, faggot. you don't have to know how it works.

>> No.888147

>>887763

Read it a few years back. Some pretty radical shit, worth the short read. There's an adventure game about it too, written by the author.

>> No.888529

>>888106
son, i read that story back in 1982, when i was fixing VAX mainframes. i know how the story works.

>> No.888557

didn't harlan ellison do a comic which was cyberpunk and the main character was modelled on Hunter S Thompson? fuck what was it called?! Metro something maybe...please halp

>> No.888566

>>888557
oops no it's transmetropolitan and warren ellis

>> No.888601

>>888529

How is the future? Tell me what it's like since you've been there and fully understand futuristic AI.

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Speaking of AI stories I'm just going to leave this here

kbai

>> No.888764

>>888529
DAMN SON!

Seriously that is some harsh shit, fuckin' damn

>> No.888770

>Just taking a break from reading it
Forget your Ritalin, son?

I thought it was fantastic. Also, terrifying. Especially when you start to wonder just how much Ellison was writing himself into AM...

>> No.888778

>>888770
HATE.

LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY blah blah blah.

I thought it was awesome.

>> No.888790

>>888778
That's actually what he wrote in Charles Platt's Christmas card.

>> No.888904

>>888104
Because it was fully sentient. There's a quote, that escapes me at the moment, that says something about how the cruelest thing on earth is that humans are self-aware. The story follows those lines. It's like an allegory for humans being mad at what ever god they may believe in for the very same reason.

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yo