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I’ve been re-reading LOOK TO WINDWARD and just hit this passage in which Iain M Banks, fully 26 years ago, absolutely nailed the point of human creativity in a world of machine superintelligence. (This is an accomplished composer speaking with the avatar of a godlike AI Mind)

16/8/26, 4:05 pm2 reposts13 likes

Jeremy Yoder says no war

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16 Aug

I keep stopping mid-read to copy bits of this book into my text file of personal ordinaries, I’m realizing one could very nearly do a daily Banks quote like @rincewind.run does for Pratchett