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Re:Everything I own, owned by lrvick on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:57PM (#49415057)
> I can’t help but think about what an AI-equipped automatically-reverse-engineering worm could do today.

Everyone should read Daemon and Freedom, like right now.

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Re:Everything I own, owned by sebmellen on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:03AM (#49415084)
This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2
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Re:Everything I own, owned by lrvick on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:14AM (#49416661)
That is the second book, but yes. Read Daemon first.
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Re:Everything I own, owned by schlarpc on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:07AM (#49415737)
I didn’t put this in the post, but yeah, I think about Daemon almost every day at this point. Unbelievably prescient novel.
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