TryingSomethingNew

People, RTFA. He’s critical/careful/thoughtful about it.

“With other technologies, advanced AI models could infer the activity of the brain. That’s something we have to be careful of.”

Agreed on slop, but I don’t think you could use a phone… It’s talking about thickness of various in the retina, and I don’t think that is going to be easily done via a

It’s a decent book. 3.5 for Goodreads is actually pretty respectable.

The problem is that it’s a decent book from Varley, the guy who wrote Titan/Wizard/Demon and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. Hell, he wrote the whole of the Eight World “series”. He’s won the Hugo 3 times. Average is a disappointment.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542400-slow-apocalypse … A scientist has developed a cure for America’s addiction—a slow-acting virus that feeds on petroleum, turning it solid. But he didn’t consider that his contagion of an Iraqi oil field would spread to infect the fuel supply of the entire world…