Every now and then, when scrolling through #MAGA spam tweets on my TL, I think of the Mailman from Vernon Vinge’s story "True Names".
The accounts behind this #MAGA spam are so shoddily constructed that they are obviously not real people with real opinions.
But what if, I sometimes wonder, it’s not some Russian troll farm behind all this InfoWars/FakeNews/conspiracy junk...
...and instead these tweets are the output of some emergent AI, evolving it’s human interfaces under the cover of idiot wingnut derp?
It’d be a small consolation if the impending apocalypse was actually a side-effect of the singularity and not just America being dumb.
Ian Brown @igb
Anyway, if you haven’t read Vinge’s classic (1981) sci-fi story I recommend you check it out.

scotswolf.com/TRUENAMES.pdf

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