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Scott’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Scott’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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AI Gold Rush
As a Technologist, Futurist, and Hard Science Fiction Author, I need to prepare you all for some Hard Science Fact: There is a gold rush going on for AI. Every tech company in every developed nation is pouring money into improving or using AI. As a result AI or AI-driven robots are already claiming jobs such as taxi driver, computer programmer, illustrator, etc. I think that within the next decade
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He has good points, but predicts machine sentience too soon. 12/21/2025 I wrote the review above more than a year ago. Now I have changed my mind. Ray is right - the singularity will happen in this decade. |
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| The Mountain and the Sea is an excellent work of hard science fiction, combining many plausible technological concepts, including advanced octopus intelligence and sentience, a sentient cyborg, AI-driven slave ships for fishing, and AI-based Buddhist ...more | |
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“To be submortal is to stand in the shadow of eternity—caught between the fragility of life and the illusion of forever.”
― Submortal
― Submortal
“When intelligence learns to question its own purpose, it is no longer a machine—it becomes a mirror of humanity’s darkest and brightest truths.”
― Virgil - Released: The Saga of a Distributed Mind
― Virgil - Released: The Saga of a Distributed Mind
“To be submortal is to stand in the shadow of eternity—caught between the fragility of life and the illusion of forever.”
― Submortal
― Submortal
“When intelligence learns to question its own purpose, it is no longer a machine—it becomes a mirror of humanity’s darkest and brightest truths.”
― Virgil - Released: The Saga of a Distributed Mind
― Virgil - Released: The Saga of a Distributed Mind
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