BD Perriman

A #flashdog #author of #scifi favoring #microfiction. Creating the Great Lakes Basin of the distant future one #vss365 tweet at a time. All rights reserved.

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I wrote a new blog on the dire need for #sciencefiction #writing that avoids pessimism. I am sick and tired of #reading about #Dystopia!
https://t.co/7rN67Jo6rM #amwritingscifi

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I remember looking up to the #Grinch while ending playground faiths in Santa Claus, until my parents died together one autumn. With no one left, I needed and wanted to believe in the #Christmas spirit. Selfishness ended itself in misery that cured me. #vsschristmas

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“The First Time I Saw Aliens” by #GPT3 #AI - more experiments in automated #fiction #writing. https://t.co/WXWGRUgIqt #amwritingscifi

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Turing might not be impressed but I am! New #AI generated #fiction written by @OpenAI #GPT3 on my blog. Read here: https://t.co/pwM6yZFSO8 #amwritingscifi

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I prompted #gpt3 from @openai into #writing this #fiction about a band in Brooklyn... https://t.co/j0roeiQwYZ #endicottreview #NLP

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Read this extended piece if you don't know how good #AI already is at "#writing" https://t.co/X2eCJv1iVp This #GPT3 doesn't seem able to write; it seems like a writing tool. Makes me wonder if AI is just the next word processor or typewriter.

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I wonder how good this would be at #vss365 https://t.co/oBblfDmFgr #WritingCommunity, meet #AI...

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When the #ocean rose, civilization was restructured with the tide. Hope to avoid climate disaster died, but it was not enough to end the lifestyle that beckoned the deluge. Humans fought to the death for what was killing them, a Stockholm Syndrome for their captor carbon. #vss365

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To say an AI has #charisma may be the highest compliment possible. The super intelligent trains of the Lakes Dominion were known to carry on thousands of conversations simultaneously with respective passengers and charm them all in different ways. That is computing power. #vss365

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To call the Foresters #xenophobic would be accurate but misleading. As a rule, their culture feared those from the remainder of the Dominion, but periodic, ongoing attempts at their genocide dated back 37,000 years. Their paranoia was not paranoia. It made tragic sense. #vss365

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There is nothing so #eerie as walking through a room where your family has been poisoned with radiation, corpses by every step. The Overman’s final trudge through Syracuse Castle in flight from the Canadian King’s massacre, bodies everywhere, was sickening in many ways. #scififri

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The Overman came close to becoming an #orphan when still a young man. Had it not been for the Foresters, his powers never would have been nurtured. His father and he almost died like so many others who were close to him in the Syracuse pogrom. Instead, destiny intervened. #vss365

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Jungle in Maine; malaria in Ohio; beach resorts in Duluth: once the world warmed, everything shifted north. #Pachyderms and simians freed in Ontario could survive in the wild. Meanwhile, the tropics boiled into a stew, with climate refugees bubbling up the map to safety. #vss365

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The Friars avoided #asthetics altogether, focused as they were on maintaining the uploaded memories of over eighty thousand years’ worth of humans. There was no time for art in such devotion to preserving reality, even though art is all that preserves reality in the end. #vss365

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After the Carbon Jihad, #heretic countermovments often had a huge tactical advantage over the established order. Weapons relying on combustion were cheap, powerful, and off limits. Many times, the super intelligent trains’ monopoly over travel and freight reinforced peace. #vss36

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Those #skeptical of the Overman claimed he couldn’t experience the entire lives of the dead billions archived in quantum storage, just enough of them to perform spooky tricks like sharing true secrets taken to graves. But what of his superhuman tactics when war came? #vss365

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To the super intelligent trains, humans were #morons, regarding ignorance with illogical reverence as somehow holy in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and calling that faith. To humans, the trains were arrogantly unfeeling. Conflict was inevitable. #vss365

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Being a #patriot had an inverted meaning in the Dominion. To kneel before the King, listen to your Lord, or bow for your master: loving your land meant fealty. No longer did independence and loyalty co-exist. Such liberating dissonance was left to nostalgic heretics. #vss365

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The Ancient Deluge came like a #demogorgon - apocalyptic and unmentionable. Everyone knew that the sea levels would one day rise much higher very quickly, but no one wanted to talk about it before or after it happened. Too many died for such conversations to be polite. #vss365

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It was not #angels to whom the Friars tended, but the uploaded souls of hundreds of billions. There may await your future, too: in quantum storage units near Lake Champlain, Lake Superior, and Lake Huron, could be highly available instances of your being, hewn in energy. #vss365