I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from a major WarPac nuclear target until the Berlin Wall came down and the CW ended. Knowing you can die horribly at any moment because of decisions made by alien intelligences thousands of miles away who don't even know you exist - there's something Lovecraftian about that, isn't there?
Charles StrossThe programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'
Charles StrossBack before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".
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