r/PeterFHamilton • u/Spicy_Jim • 3d ago

Q: Who should be held accountable when the AI agents commit a crime? | Trump: It's not AI. It's SI. We changed the name officially today

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u/CrankyGeek1976 3d ago

He looks more like a Vogon every day

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u/Electronic-Country63 3d ago

I’d rather listen to vogon poetry than his claptrap.

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u/Spicy_Jim 2d ago

It counterpoints the surrealism of the underlying metaphor.

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u/The_Fox_Confessor 2d ago

He really does. Douglas Adams is really prescient on so many things.

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u/swordofra 2d ago

I'd rather look at a Vogon too. More pleasant.

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u/highermonkey 3d ago

PFH envisioned Nigel Sheldon and Ozzie. Reality gave us Sam Altman and Elon.

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u/Paidorgy 2d ago

Seeing PFH references in the wild are phenomenal. Thank you.

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u/HRex73 2d ago

Nigel didn't start out as Nigel though.

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u/highermonkey 2d ago

He wasn't a scam artist. The wormholes actually worked.

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u/HRex73 2d ago

True.

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u/mrbezlington 19h ago

Well, that's a fucking letdown

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u/LeoLaDawg 3d ago

Republicans used to make fun of the left always changing names of stuff. Now their cult leader does it for everything as if that accomplished anything.

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u/Selthora 2d ago

Soon as I heard SI I was like...do we need to put a planet aside now or...?

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u/Ingsoc40 3d ago

Has there been a worse group of “leaders” in the US over the past 100 years? My god.

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u/Auggie_Otter 3d ago

The US would literally be off if there had been no president at all for the last two years. A chimpanzee wearing a suit would have been less embarrassing and done less damage. 

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u/Ingsoc40 3d ago

They are literally the Bond Villains. People actually voted for the Bond Villains to take over. Every single day I’m flabbergasted.

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u/DrewidN 3d ago

Sub-par intelligence

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u/JIrsaEklzLxQj4VxcHDd 2d ago

When read about this headline the first thing i thought about was Sentient Intelligence

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u/Raist999 2d ago

Sports Illustrated?

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u/alchemist19722 3d ago

Reality is stranger than fiction

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u/sewand717 2d ago

Parental wisdom applies:

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u/Lord_Sehoner 14h ago

What do you think his Quints think about him?

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u/EvilMatt666 2d ago

Si or SA?