Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞
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For a long time, I resisted reading Murderbot, despite all the accolades (for reasons I'll get into in a sec).
I just finished watching it on Apple+, it's brilliant, #hopepunk AF, you should definitely watch/read it.
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop
I have read the first three (or four?) novellas. They were fine. I found the TV series much more rewarding. Visuals, cast, pacing, and various other changes I felt improved on the source material a lot.
Edge@susankayequinn@wandering.shop
@marthawells@wandering.shop is fabulous, and wrote one of the finest characters I've read in a modern novel. Glad you read them.
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱I've read SF since I was a kid in the 70s & I've been a huge fan of "sentient robot" stories all along.
I,ROBOT & BICENTENNIAL MAN were some of my absolute favs & I was beside myself when I, ROBOT went to film.
These stories pinged hard on my social justice nerves plus it was nerdy cool tech.
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱I've also written stories re: morality & implications of creating "artificial intelligence" both enhanced humans& machine intelligence.
My Singularity series is about the human side, with these two short stories directly about limiting bot intelligence (much like Murderbot's governor module).
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱So why the resistance to Murderbot?
In short: cuz tech companies are using the "sentient bot" story as part of their genAI hype and con, both the cozy version and the scary skynet version (& AGI)
Longer reason: I've been increasingly concerned about our storytelling around AI for a decade...
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