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Writing stories | |
November 23rd, 2017 | |
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I was digging through some old files and ran across a story | |
I started writing back in 2010 called Emergence. It's a piece of | |
speculative fiction about the creation of the world's first | |
artificial intelligence. It's somewhat technical, but only enough | |
to ground it in a reasonable scientific basis for development of | |
the story. My goal was to focus more on the human questions, "what | |
constitutes life?", "what is our place in a universe with AI?", | |
"do our concepts of morality extend to artificial beings?". | |
I read back on what I had written so far and it didn't horribly | |
offend me. The subject also seemed especially appropriate to the | |
gopher audience, you misfits with your love of old tech and duct | |
tape. I've picked it up and added it to my gopher hole. In fact, | |
I added a whole writing section where I hope to share some other | |
goodies in the future. For now, the first few chapters of the | |
story can be found at the link below. Let me know what you think | |
so far. | |
Emergence |