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Sorry kid, we killed your robot — Embodied goes broke, AI social devices will stop working (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Diamond Age is an interesting idea, the original Primer was for the elite and used distributed encryption to farm out the qualified work to skilled artisans. In the end though, a cut-down primer (using some sort of AI? it's been a long time since I read it) is used to educate and train the girl army used by one of the faction in the final battle.

It's not really explained but I suspect the OG Primer had a robust payment model that ensured that the service oculd be kept solvent.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

You are right, the OG Primer was a bit bespoke yes. So I doubt that could have failed without large parts of the whole financial system falling down. It was more a reference than a real 1 to 1 comparison, and it certainly doesn't fit neatly. Prob should have just made it a reference to the girl army thing, but I coudln't recall enough of that.