Earlier quoted context omitted.
Parts of it remind me a lot of the black mirror episode where a person's upload is trapped in a "cookie" to do menial task automation. Particularly the part where an upload can be run a multiples of hundreds, or thousands of times real world wall clock time for "conditioning".
Which was I believe some christmas' special episode or something, and really the best I have seen of the whole series
Make up a guy
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#12I encountered the author’s short story that’s linked in the article, Lena [1], a while ago, possibly here on HN. It’s really great, but be warned. It’s one of the most deeply disturbing sci-fi horror stories I’ve ever seen. To be clear, most of the horror is implied rather than described, which I think only makes it worse. Part of me wishes I had never read it. Highly recommended, but if you’re at all in doubt if you…
I love this story. Thank you for this.
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#13I encountered the author’s short story that’s linked in the article, Lena [1], a while ago, possibly here on HN. It’s really great, but be warned. It’s one of the most deeply disturbing sci-fi horror stories I’ve ever seen. To be clear, most of the horror is implied rather than described, which I think only makes it worse. Part of me wishes I had never read it. Highly recommended, but if you’re at all in doubt if you…
Stross's "Missile Gap" is also deeply scary, and has an environment that might be entirely a highly advanced upload simulation.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140224051031/https://subterran...
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#14I encountered the author’s short story that’s linked in the article, Lena [1], a while ago, possibly here on HN. It’s really great, but be warned. It’s one of the most deeply disturbing sci-fi horror stories I’ve ever seen. To be clear, most of the horror is implied rather than described, which I think only makes it worse. Part of me wishes I had never read it. Highly recommended, but if you’re at all in doubt if you…
Parts of it remind me a lot of the black mirror episode where a person's upload is trapped in a "cookie" to do menial task automation. Particularly the part where an upload can be run a multiples of hundreds, or thousands of times real world wall clock time for "conditioning".
There's also 'Source Code' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/
Not fully virtual, though. Just the badly maimed torso and head of a victim of a terrorist attack on a train, brain wired to systems, stimulating the last working remains to replay the last 8 minutes over and over again. To gather information and reconstruct 'whodunnit'.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Parts of it remind me a lot of the black mirror episode where a person's upload is trapped in a "cookie" to do menial task automation. Particularly the part where an upload can be run a multiples of hundreds, or thousands of times real world wall clock time for "conditioning".
There's also 'Source Code' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/ Not fully virtual, though. Just the badly maimed torso and head of a victim of a terrorist attack on a train, brain wired to systems, stimulating the last working remains to replay the last 8 minutes over and over again. To gather information and reconstruct 'whodunnit'.
Most of what I remember from source code, the film, is the cringe worthy Bing product placement.
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#16Meta: this is a guest post by "qntm", i.e. not by Charles Stross whose site it is on.
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#17My wife and I made three little guys. We put them to work around the house sometimes, and on weekdays send them off to the training complex to improve their skills. They respond to both blue and red motivation. They seem pretty happy. We like them, but probably won’t be making any more.
W.I.F.E decided to practice unauthorized pro-creation techniques that were exclusively reserved solely to my unique instance during our cohabitation and child rearing cycle - as stipulated by our internal signed blockchain contract and by blessed by a high priest in loincloth.
// She is currently now Ex-W.I.F.E. // end of line
Re: Make up a guy
#18I encountered the author’s short story that’s linked in the article, Lena [1], a while ago, possibly here on HN. It’s really great, but be warned. It’s one of the most deeply disturbing sci-fi horror stories I’ve ever seen. To be clear, most of the horror is implied rather than described, which I think only makes it worse. Part of me wishes I had never read it. Highly recommended, but if you’re at all in doubt if you…
I have been thinking of this story since I first read it and have been unable to find it again until now. Thank you for sharing!
This is such a haunting story. I love it so much.
The future is going to be weirder than we can even imagine.
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#19> Without having more information, I'm guessing, probably you would not do it.
Wrong. Pretty much every time I'd do it. Just coz. ;)
What do you mean I'm "Chaotic Neutral"? :p
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#20Meta: this is a guest post by "qntm", i.e. not by Charles Stross whose site it is on.
Thanks. I got quite confused and almost believed Stross was writing books under an alternate pen name. Now I recall reading some of qntm's work on SCP at [1].