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imagine you are killed while your brain is scanned by beings you cannot comprehend to comprehend and you wake up in a virtual purgatory waving swords around

The idea of being over overfit fills me with existential dread in a way I can't quite name

i need Neal Stephenson to stop being fucking right about the future right fucking now “Fall; or, Dodge in Hell” called AI psychosis and now brains locked in a video game and he simply cannot keep getting away with this

My experience was "this book isn't very good as like a story but unfortunately I have a better sense of what's going to happen to humanity next"

i enjoyed both halves of the story, though i found the real-world parts way more compelling. it’s not really prophetic in the details or in the big picture imo, but some of the world building feels like it rhymes too well.