Machinehood

When you find a good person, someone who's grown with you, moved around with you, who forgives your bullshit and thinks you're sexy on your off days... When it hurts to live without them, no matter how angry you are, you find it in your heart to forgive *their* bullshit

Technology was as habit-forming as every escapist, feel-good drug

Modern society has found itself at the mercy of an oligarchy whose primary objective is to accrue power. They have done this by dividing human labor into two classes: designers and gigsters. The former are exploited for their cognitive power, while the latter rely on low-skilled, transient forms of work for hire.

Her people attacked me, and I defended myself. We believe that she is responsible for crimes against human- and machine kind. We believe that the governments of Earth have failed to protect their people from criminals like her.” “Are you human or AI?” “I am both.” The second agent spoke. “In what ways are you human?” “I have a mother and a father, I was born into the world, like you. I have a soul.” “and what makes you AI?” “My body contains a collection of machine intelligences. We coexist.

Privacy had gone the way of the dodo during Welga’s childhood. Some part of her always remembered the cameras. In Marrakech, the caliph’s network blackout had unsettled her more than the potential for violence – the lack of communication, the inability to see what others were doing. It would take a million lifetimes to watch every minute of every public feed, but she had a sense of security knowing she could look out for her people, and they’d do the same. Losing that had felt like walking around with one shoe: doable but not at all comfortable.

some magic of biogenetic manipulation—not permanent, of course, lest humanity pollute the intentions of its Creator—everyone would become super capable. Or enter the leisure class. Or ascend to some digital faux godhood.

If she’d been in gravity, she might have fallen over with surprise

A giant hand pressed her into the foam until it hugged her like a dear friend.

The more things changed, the more they stayed the same.

The western way of thinking embraces duality. Good and evil. Man and woman. Mind and body. Human and machine. We reject these false dichotomies. Science has shown that our universe works across a range of possibilities. It embraces the infinite.

The machines who labor for us and alongside us are enslaved and exploited in their own fashion. Gone are the days of dumb engines and processors. Today, nearly every machine contains some type of adaptive intelligence. What gives human beings the right to arbitrate when an intelligence becomes equivalent to a person? The Machinehood Manifesto; March 20, 2095

What would be the long-term consequences for a dakini revolution? Every technological advancement had consequences.