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Clients ask you to implement something. When you deliver what they wanted, they change their mind and come with new requirements they didn't bother to mention before. Every. Single. Time.
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, the Culture series, and Vorkosigan Saga Sci Fi does tend to be bleak, these are the ones I can think of.
It's not used to be. It used to be optimistic. But then I guess the creators thought that "real literature" should be more "complex" and started to put more fear and desolation in. After all, as we know, all happy futures are alike and all unhappy futures are unhappy in their own different ways.
Edgar must feel the same as many software engineers. Clients ask you to implement something. When you deliver what they wanted, they change their mind and come with new requirements they didn't bother to mention before. Every. Single. Time.
How is it that displaying text can be churning through so many CPU cycles? My whole laptop is slowed to a crawl.
(Spoilers) It takes Edgar 54 days to build a swarm taking metallic elements from all sources, including living organisms. But then when instructed not to harm living organisms, it still takes Edgar 54 days to do the same. Extracting metals from humans can't be the most efficient - or even in the top 100 of most efficient, likely - way to get metals. So why would Edgar do that? Also, how Edgar is supposed to be respon…
Edgar could stabilize humanity and help them achieve a galactic imperium in the historical way of imperial peace time regimes: wielding the threat of violence over the conquered peoples, passing laws, and ensuring compliance with occasional demonstrations of violence. Humans will try to rebel, but Edgar will have a much bigger stick.
Additionally, Edgar could develop diplomacy that is so good that he can anticipate and nonviolently resolve all conflicts, eliminating the need for violent demonstrations. He still has a bigger stick, but now he doesn't have to use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8&list=PL2tgThFV6O...
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Simply having the page open makes my GPU fans spin to max, and the whole page lags. The text stutters, the orange particles at the start are a slideshow, etc. Task manager shows my GPU "3D" processing at 100% for some reason, even though the page seems to be almost entirely text? Windows 10, Firefox. Nvidia GPU. Not sure whats happening.
That's interesting. I'm on a 12 year old macbook (macOS, Chromium, Intel HD4000 iGPU) and it runs perfectly fine. Everything's smooth, including the particles at the beginning.
(Spoilers) It takes Edgar 54 days to build a swarm taking metallic elements from all sources, including living organisms. But then when instructed not to harm living organisms, it still takes Edgar 54 days to do the same. Extracting metals from humans can't be the most efficient - or even in the top 100 of most efficient, likely - way to get metals. So why would Edgar do that? Also, how Edgar is supposed to be respon…
> How is Edgar supposed to ensure humans don't go to war / use the tech to harm humans Edgar could stabilize humanity and help them achieve a galactic imperium in the historical way of imperial peace time regimes: wielding the threat of violence over the conquered peoples, passing laws, and ensuring compliance with occasional demonstrations of violence. Humans will try to rebel, but Edgar will have a much bigger stic…