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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Apr 2017
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    Game: invent a historic event from the next century. Eg "great barista rebellion of 2037"...need not be predictive. Only funny/interesting.

    7:54 PM - 21 Apr 2017
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    • darth swompthing Jorge Camacho Chris Fong Scott Lucas sonya! supposedly? Wilson Ron K Jeffries al Timothy #masks4all Roy
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      1. seeing a flicker of fire brisked by a dusty wind‏ @DarkandWondrous 21 Apr 2017
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        2046—genetically "uplifted" octopi achieve tool-use & literacy 2048-53—1st Ingratitude War 2068-2107—Cephalopod-Arachnid-Corvid Triumvirate

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      2. Kelly Digges‏ @kellydigges 22 Apr 2017
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        2048: Scandal erupts when the Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to a reclusive author who turns out to be an AI.

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      3. Kelly Digges‏ @kellydigges 23 Apr 2017
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        Awarding Physics & Chem prizes for AI-driven research to the AI's programmers is of course standard practice by this time, but 1/2

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      2. Max Sharma‏ @maxbegins 21 Apr 2017
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        2090: World's first AI super/quantum computer shuts itself down to meditate indefinitely

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      3. Sushant Taneja‏ @sshntt 21 Apr 2017
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        Then it will wake up in a 100 years and say 42 😁

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      2. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 22 Apr 2017
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        2028 first AI on the Supreme Court. 2064, last human on Supreme Court retires. Deep Learning has a 5-4 majority for the next 12 years.

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      3. das blinkenlight‏ @tubelite 22 Apr 2017
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        Magna Carta 2064, as amended: "No freeman may be condemned except by lawful judgment of 12 million peers simulated to the 5th degree"

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      2. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 21 Apr 2017
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        distributed refusal of service to open non-worker supremacists crisis of 2083

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      3. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 21 Apr 2017
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        this is the one where universal basic income results in voluntary NEETs deciding they are the elite of society and lording it over workers

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      2. das blinkenlight‏ @tubelite 21 Apr 2017
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        Passport, First Social Republic: "..in the name of Presidents Zuckerberg, Chesky and Kalanick, the bearer pass w/o let or hindrance"

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      3. Nisha Pillai‏ @nishaspillai 22 Apr 2017
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        But this only applied in cyberspace. No one left their physical homes anymore.

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