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psykotic on June 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems

It's been forever since I read the book, but wasn't the whole point of the Emergency culture they didn't use AI and relied entirely on hyper-focused humans with enslavement implants?

arethuza on June 5, 2012 [–]

Didn't Sherkaner Underhill initially think that the Emergent zipheads were actually an AI?

psykotic on June 5, 2012 | [–]

Wasn't that Pham Nuwen, after the initial attack?

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