That is, the point of the entire exercise, i.e., to show one out of a gazillion possible failure modes that can happen if you get FAI almost (but not quite) right—a theme that shows up time and time again in EY’s fiction. Acting like the superintelligence character is some kind of Author Avatar is really ignorant of… well, everything else he’s written. That’s why this a “Failed Utopia” and not a “Utopia.”
That much is true, but looking at SamLL’s contributions it seems that what made him untranslatable 1 was “The Opposite Sex”, which is written in EY’s own voice.
That much is true, but looking at SamLL’s contributions it seems that what made him untranslatable 1 was “The Opposite Sex”, which is written in EY’s own voice.