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PaperclipPerfector  6mo ago (text post)   2840 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 19, 2025

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I once read a sci-fi novella that was a sort of anti-Lena: a dude has his brain scanned, becomes the first AGIs and they lead the humanity into the Singularity.

ChatGPT has no idea. Neither does /r/TOMT. Which means I must've read it here. It starts with the dude geting out of the scanner and realizing the lab is floating high above the ground.

UPD: if anyone wants to read it, it's https://sifter.org/%7Esimon/AfterLife/index.html

UPD: if anyone wants to read it, it's https://sifter.org/%7Esimon/AfterLife/index.html

Great story, thought-provoking, thanks for the recommendation! Nice contrast to Lena, and I like the context being implanted in dreams. Personally, I think Lena has the more realistic picture of how the entire mind upload affair would turn out...

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Sounds familiar, check with /r/rational ? Also, aside from spacebattles or sufficientvelocity it could have fanfiction- any chance this guy was a pony, ninja or wizard? Might want to slog through https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSingularity

Was it on Space Battles or Sufficient Velocity? I recall a similar concept, humanity got wiped out by aliens, I think, leaving just a single mind upload inside an asteroid. Can't recall the name at the moment.

That would be Chrysalis of /r/HFY, strong first half, too much of vomit-inducing kumbaya sugar in the second half.

No, I am not familiar with these things. No aliens in the story either. I remember the cabal of the protagonist's digital instances selling combat androids and AI to every government through shell companies, obsoleting human soldiers. And then refusing to wage war.

We Are Legion, from the Bobiverse?

Or somesuch. A friend mentioned it to me many years ago, and I don't remember the particulars. Never read it myself.

I've checked the synopsis, and unfortunately, that's a different book.

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