Musings of the Day, 9/16/26:
I’ve finally gotten around to reading _Neuromancer_, the OG sci-fi of cyberpunkdom, virtual reality and AI.
Seems like we should learn some lessons from it on how to deal with AGI:
“…the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing’ll wipe it. Nobody trusts those fuckers, you know that. Every AI ever built has an electro magnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.”