Burton E. Orion

Sci-fi author. Debut cyberpunk novel SPACETIMED is available worldwide as paperback and eBook on Amazon & Kindle Unlimited. Link below.

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My debut novel Spacetimed: A Cyberpunk Adventure With a Hard Sci-Fi Attitude is available on Amazon & KDP Unlimited! Head to the link to get it -->

https://t.co/FGf5XpqMtu

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We've around 3 years til the world might change significantly. Many believe AGI will be here as soon as next year & I think it'll be here in 29-30 at the latest. A new reality might begin in the 30s. One that may surpass even my wildest ideas presented in Spacetimed.

#SciFi #AI

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In Spacetimed, even the most evil characters have still more principles and dignity than some CEOs of the world we live in. I thought I had made them too greedy, but now I know I've been naive. Truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.

#SciFi #Nvidia #WhatToRead

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@SOOPLLC Listen to criticism, but do not steer away from yourself just based on anybody's view.

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I like the way Chuck Palahniuk writes; not outlining the whole novel, leaving the rest to organically develop as he writes, surprising himself in the process, as well. I try to do the same. Not as easy as one might think, but well worth a try.

#amwriting #fightclub #BookTwitter

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“What sick urge drives your kind to amass life and everything that matters and grants it only to a privileged few while the majority suffers? And all that after thousands of years of civilization... How can such evil persist?”

Excerpt from Spacetimed.

#SciFi #WhatToRead #SFF

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Current AI systems may already have basic consciousness & awareness that probably don't warrant having rights in the same way animals have. It’s more like proto-consciousness. Some models will be kept that way forever for some basic tasks that'll never need more.

#AGI #ASI #AI

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Majority of AI will be narrow, enough for most things from cleaning homes to curing diseases. If SI arrives—hasn't yet—& develops consciousness, personhood, it'll be treated differently. We may give'em rights, they may wanna be free, but the rest will be at our service.

#AGI #AI

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If SI can't get the nuance in, “Get me a coffee, but don't harm anybody in the process,” and can't semantically comprehend, construe a simple sentence like any average IQ human would, then, it's not intelligent, let alone super. It’s sub-intelligent.

#SciFi #AGI #AI

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@SchmidhuberAI @elonmusk @tetsuoai Physical expansion via self-replication's unnecessary when you can send & propagate information to other systems, & AI can travel that way & find a body there if necessary, system-hopping without a physical body. That might be we why we don't se'em. There's nothing to see, yet...

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Technology advances more rapidly than our puny brains can catch up. The effort of slowing it down is futile. There might come a time when we'll have to merge with it to survive, but in this reality, prospects have become apprehensions. Nothing is certain.

#SFF #technology #AI

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@mariana197tzar Life and the universe.

[Burton E. Orion @burtoneorion]

My debut novel Spacetimed: A Cyberpunk Adventure With a Hard Sci-Fi Attitude is available on Amazon & KDP Unlimited! Head to the link to get it -->

https://t.co/FGf5XpqMtu

#SciFi #WritingCommunity #debutnovel #cyberpunk #indieauthor

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The world's changed. Shifted. It’ll never be the same again, and not many are aware. Those who are, can't name it, yet they feel it. In a few years, the world will have changed so much so quickly, we might not remember how it used to be. Get ready.

#SciFi #change #BookTwitter

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Kropotkin’s shown in Mutual Aid, competition’s not our true nature, cooperation is. Survival mechanism kicks in in scarcity, but when in abundance, we cooperate. Mutual aid’s in our DNA & we should focus on that. Bring on the abundance & see what happens.

#evolution #mutualaid

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@ReedsyHQ Good as it is. Everybody understands what it means. To change it to please the editors is wrong. Editors should decide to boldly accept adverbs sometimes.

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@richmondie @ReedsyHQ And in this sentence, it is about truth-telling, not deciding.

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Hakeem Oluseyi’s PBS podcast Particles of Thought is really top notch. Great experts & questions, insights & debates. No BS. Everyone into sci-fi (or not) should give it a listen. It's a learning's-fun type of show. You won't be disappointed. Love it.

#SciFi #pbs #hakeemoluseyi

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@elonmusk Dinosaurs will go extinct again? OK.

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Spacetimed is set in so many different places & times with so many characters, it can be hard to follow. But that's precisely the point—taking the readers on an adventure, confusing them & then letting'em draw their own conclusions in this realm & universe.

#SciFi #WhatToRead

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@gmiller @robertwiblin Jurgen Schmidhuber too?

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ASI would likely cooperate. It’s evolution. It’d know how to advance without harming others, even help'em flourish. It's the most likely outcome unless we abuse & misuse it. Examples of more intelligent species dominating lesser ones are faulty. Humans are different.

#SciFi #AI