Slightly edited the original post to avoid giving away what my readers have finally convinced me is, in fact, an undesirable spoiler. I also hope you didn’t mind my removing the mention of FAI, because I feel fairly strongly about not mixing that into the fic. “A fanatic is someone who can’t change their mind and won’t change the subject”; if we can’t shut up about FAI while talking about Harry Potter, we may have a problem.
Very true, and I don’t agree with some comments that I’ve seen lately (and probably they’ve been around all along) complaining about all of the shout outs.
But we may have more of a shout-out here: there’s a strong implication that the Mirror of Noitilov was created by Atlanteans attempting to create an honest-to-goodness FAI to avert an existential threat. Since Atlantis may have created magic entirely, and since there is already a lot of speculation among the fans that the existence of magic implies that MOR is a simulation run by an AI, this would put FAI and the existential threat of UFAI into the background of the world at a deep level.
Of course, only you know if this implication and speculation are correct. And either way, I’m not complaining!
That’s fine. I’m actually not that into AI, so I wasn’t thinking about that problem, but you’re probably right. I also made a slight edit to your slight edit so that it still sounds like me.
Slightly edited the original post to avoid giving away what my readers have finally convinced me is, in fact, an undesirable spoiler. I also hope you didn’t mind my removing the mention of FAI, because I feel fairly strongly about not mixing that into the fic. “A fanatic is someone who can’t change their mind and won’t change the subject”; if we can’t shut up about FAI while talking about Harry Potter, we may have a problem.
Well, you kept it out for a long time.
A ShoutOut is not the same as contaminating the plot.
ETA: Spoilers for chapters in the early 100s.
Very true, and I don’t agree with some comments that I’ve seen lately (and probably they’ve been around all along) complaining about all of the shout outs.
But we may have more of a shout-out here: there’s a strong implication that the Mirror of Noitilov was created by Atlanteans attempting to create an honest-to-goodness FAI to avert an existential threat. Since Atlantis may have created magic entirely, and since there is already a lot of speculation among the fans that the existence of magic implies that MOR is a simulation run by an AI, this would put FAI and the existential threat of UFAI into the background of the world at a deep level.
Of course, only you know if this implication and speculation are correct. And either way, I’m not complaining!
As someone who’s often creeped out by LW, I approve.
That’s fine. I’m actually not that into AI, so I wasn’t thinking about that problem, but you’re probably right. I also made a slight edit to your slight edit so that it still sounds like me.