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The Creeping Techno-Horror of “The MANIAC”

Benjamín Labatut’s latest novel excavates science history to hint at the madness of AI advancement at any cost. The post The Creeping Techno-Horror of “The MANIAC” appeared first on Nautilus.

t was as if those awful things had a will of their own,” says physicist Richard Feynman in Benjamín Labatut’s latest novel . Feynman never actually said this—or if he did, I can’t find evidence of it—but the veracity of the quote is not what matters. More important are the implications of what he’s saying. Feynman is referring to the advent and use of the

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