you've played Hades (1 or 2), right? they do make such hay of seeing the bosses every night (and then talking to some of them back home later)

Old but somehow still deliriously salient: John Brunner's Stand On Zanzibar

I also don't think Smith actually *wants* separation, she just likes playing footsie with them, so throwing them a rhetorical bone she knows she won't have to pay up on is exactly the kind of thing she'd do

I'm not even a Tau guy but fuck it, get in the hovertank

I used to be on Team Legalize It All, and now I've fully recanted. Make people fly to Vegas or walk past a scowling mobster. They need that friction, *we* all need that friction to exist.

I've said this elsewhere, but I firmly believe the driving force of this hype is because we have a century's worth of stories now about talking machines, so when we have machines that talk we default to thinking they work like the stories

Turks and Caicos, obvs

If you can't make the chatbot into god make the chatbot out of god?

You could write a whole-ass SF novel just about convicted criminals jailbreaking their parolebots, LLM-style

House of Leaves agrees with you I think

How much of this is LLMs and how much is the end of zirp? (Bonus Q: how much is the Davos set talking each other into expecting a Biden recession?)