Diamond
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- What Are We Doing Here, Exactly?; LLMs Are Playful, Actually … This entire thing is also part of the (humanist?) premise of Neal Stephenson’s Lesser-Cited Manual For The Future, The Diamond Age, in which Stephenson pits an …
- What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide … Often the nearest example from science fiction for this type of agent is The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age [7] . Every so …
- How can I help you? … I once experienced this one year when I contributed to destroying the environment and did enough flying around to hit Diamond status on Delta, which meant there was …
- Safer Routes Home? … yeah, but what if something bad happens? It’s complicated, right? As Lyzi Diamond points out , “Like all mapping problems, it is doable with the right data (and …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … s Diamond Age. (Relatedly, I see that in the tech industry's process of Implement Everything That Neal Stephenson Wrote About, we've now reached the Diamond Age …
- Welcome to the Churn … I used to get excited about the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age as a sort of perfect interactive textbook combined with …
- Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify … Where are the futures where some things really are free? Stephenson's Diamond Age had a sort-of basic income implemented through compilers/3D printers: each individual had …
- Mundane Blue Ant; Press Square To Hack … for point-to-point hundred-mile plus transport either fractional jet ownership or Diamond frequent flyer status and someone else's expense account. Mundane Blue Ant still has …
- Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions … So I think the answer to Charlie's question feels like a nascent phyle, Diamond-Age[5] style. A loose grouping of people with a networked sensibility with …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … You have a similar situation in the toy universe of Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age where Nell's brother teachers her how to use their [replicator/fab] and …
- An Alternative; Washing; Users … I'm reminded of Stephenson's clades from The Diamond Age - in that particular case, he was making the point of cultural affiliation being stronger than national - and …
- Some Thoughts On The Illustrated Primer, Fax Your GP … If you haven't read The Diamond Age, then you probably should right now, etc. etc. The thing about a lot of descriptions of product in science fiction …