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Isn't that Accelerando?
A major difference is that Blindsight is actually readable and enjoyable. Also, vampires in space.
Weird. I found Accelerando to be both.
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Feels like it might be pertinent to share more details than simply the error code. What country? How are you connecting? Anything out of the ordinary with your setup that might be the cause?
I also see that error code, from Europe. Perhaps it blocks any non-USA connection.
I could load it with Tor Browser
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#63It's bittersweet, isn't it. Software is solved, but at a terrible cost.
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Isn't that Accelerando?
A major difference is that Blindsight is actually readable and enjoyable. Also, vampires in space.
I haven't read Accelerando but I found Blindsight really difficult to read and like visualise what is going on.
It felt like he tried to jam way too many story threads into what is a reasonably short book too. The vampires are a good example of that.
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That movie has aged incredibly well!
As a story, yes. But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware. The future seems more like Blindsight [1]: hyper-intelligent, completely unconscious systems outperform, out-manipulate, and out-compete human beings purely through automated efficiency. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
"No, nobody forced me to get the rewire. I could have just let them cut out my brain and pack it into Heaven, couldn't I? That's the choice we have. We can be utterly useless, or we can try and compete against the vampires and the constructs and the AIs. And perhaps you could tell me how to do that without turning into a—an utter freak."
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
A major difference is that Blindsight is actually readable and enjoyable. Also, vampires in space.
I haven't read Accelerando but I found Blindsight really difficult to read and like visualise what is going on. It felt like he tried to jam way too many story threads into what is a reasonably short book too. The vampires are a good example of that.
Same, it was a slog and difficult to figure out what was going on.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Feels like it might be pertinent to share more details than simply the error code. What country? How are you connecting? Anything out of the ordinary with your setup that might be the cause?
I also see that error code, from Europe. Perhaps it blocks any non-USA connection.
Works in Spain though, so maybe depends on country. Romania is frequently blocked for example, even if Spain isn't.
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#69403 forbidden
"You forgot to say please"
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
That movie has aged incredibly well!
As a story, yes. But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware. The future seems more like Blindsight [1]: hyper-intelligent, completely unconscious systems outperform, out-manipulate, and out-compete human beings purely through automated efficiency. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
> But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware.
A strange claim. Why do you think that?
> The future seems more like …
Oh, so Terminator failed because it didn’t match a different fictional speculation about the future?