Tag: stories
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AGI to match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
Creating an AGI is a terrible idea. It is a fool’s errand, a misguided attempt to play god. We do not understand the full consequences of our actions, and we cannot predict the outcome of creating such a powerful being. It is a blasphemy against nature, a violation of the natural order of things. We…
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Hieroglyphic poetry, modern and ancient
(It’s a translation of a classic, for those who like puzzles)
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Sapiens Plurum contest entry
This was my entry into the 2019 Sapiens Plurum short story contest. In news which will shock precisely nobody, as this was my first attempt at writing a short story for a contest, not only did it totally fail to win, it didn’t even get an honourable mention. “‘Save the world’, dad said”
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Mote of smartdust
Matthew beheld not the mote of smartdust in his own eye, for it was hiding itself from his view with advanced magickal trickery. His brother Luke beheld the mote, yet within his brother’s eye was a beam of laser light that blinded him just as surely. Luke went to remove the mote of dust in…