1: SailorSegaSaturn was not alone in taking far too long to realize this was a work of speculative fiction and I mean that as high praise.
2: In consideration of what you said elsewhere about aiming for the kind of softball coverage that major publications have given OpenAI, I think the fearful tone works pretty well, actually. It makes the overall piece feel uncanny and uncomfortable in a way that fits right into the way that this kind of deeply dystopian stuff gets normalized. Reading through this I realized that despite all the talk about inequality and playing God never being meaningfully rebuked by the Evolve people I was actually having a harder and harder time articulating my opposition. I actually appreciated the ending going in the same direction, and thought that the tension in that McLuhan quote was really interesting to explore.
Thank you so much. Really appreciate that! I’m glad this is being read as its intended to.
It took embarrassingly long for me to decide on a quote there. I had a few options that were thematically correct but I also wanted something that would make sense for the character since I don’t have much time to flesh out characters in a story so short.
1: SailorSegaSaturn was not alone in taking far too long to realize this was a work of speculative fiction and I mean that as high praise.
2: In consideration of what you said elsewhere about aiming for the kind of softball coverage that major publications have given OpenAI, I think the fearful tone works pretty well, actually. It makes the overall piece feel uncanny and uncomfortable in a way that fits right into the way that this kind of deeply dystopian stuff gets normalized. Reading through this I realized that despite all the talk about inequality and playing God never being meaningfully rebuked by the Evolve people I was actually having a harder and harder time articulating my opposition. I actually appreciated the ending going in the same direction, and thought that the tension in that McLuhan quote was really interesting to explore.
Thank you so much. Really appreciate that! I’m glad this is being read as its intended to.
It took embarrassingly long for me to decide on a quote there. I had a few options that were thematically correct but I also wanted something that would make sense for the character since I don’t have much time to flesh out characters in a story so short.
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