Hackworth

I didn’t say they were. I said A.I. is. The delay makes remote control difficult at long distances. Hence, AutoNav.

I’m embarrassed I skimmed right over that on a first glance. Looks like the original was hematite. I’m going to pretend I was making a bad LotR joke.

Ah, I’d never heard that. Found the image and it appears to have originally been hematite.

I’m confused by the matte out. Is it to anonymize the ring? Something written on it, maybe?

Just pointing out the definition of A.I. that I am using in this context.

GPTs are based on a deep learning architecture called the transformer. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, which is itself a subset of artificial intelligence. -Wikipedia

A.I. is much more suited to space travel than humans are. The next few decades probably determine whether future aliens first encounter Curiosity’s progeny or MechaHitler grey goo.

I’ll second Dispatch. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would and legitimately looking forward to the next chapters.

The fact that workers with expense accounts still feel they’re getting paid so little that they deserve to commit fraud says something about that stratum of employee.

Pretty much anyone who travels has to submit receipts. Most people who travel are not making bank. They’re the people who set up and stand at convention booths, sales staff support, assistants, videographers, etc. Also, most travel is a miserable ordeal. I’m not saying it’s okay to commit fraud, but let’s not equate the hourly employee “re-creating” his lost lunch receipt with a 6-figure income.

Member when Bush Jr. leaned over to Michelle Obama and said, “That was some weird shit.” after Trump’s first inauguration? It’s strange to see villain decay outside of fiction.

Cyberpunk 2077

This is kinda the plot of Hudson Hawk.