Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

by Hugh Howey

The futurist and the vagabond are the same souls—one in body and the other in thought.

There is a wastefulness to humankind that we ignore when we assume it’s a contemporary and temporary problem. Instead of worshipping a past that never happened, we should look to a future that we might avoid.

“What’s the first thing AI will do when it becomes self-aware?” he asked me. “What?” I wanted to know. “Hide,” Kevin said. “The first thing it’ll do is hide.”

Living in three dimensions meant you learned what you needed to know too late in life.