Adversarial Metanoia

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The Third Inheritance
Troy didn’t move back to his father’s house until the inheritance trial had been settled. It wasn’t that his ownership of the house and the walled…
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The Commute
There were three doors in Dave’s small living room: one opened into his bedroom, the other into the corridor outside his apartment, and the third one…
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Upon the Place Beneath
And it turned out that we built software patient enough to hallucinate medicines that worked and patient enough to teach living beings to synthesize…
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How to hunt monsters
You have to be subtle when letting people know about the zombie-infested valley. You don’t want mass panic, armies, chaos. Spread the softest of…
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April 2023
Iterative Prototyping
Seven secret closed bunkers were rehearsing the end of the world. It was delicate work to build an stable synthetic ecosociosystem, one made no easier…
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Forensic Analysis
Kate’s anger always knew it first. The rest of us would follow: we were looking at the data with as much focus and training as her – and also with half…
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Educational Software
The Black Box upside down (meaning exposure, vulnerability, lack of power; that which is optimized for somebody else’s benefit) Her parents signed off…
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The Plot
The setting was beautiful enough to slightly warm even the heart of a well-paid script hack. “I’m not much for revolutions,” he said, “even as a plot…
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Night and Rain were the Local Optimum
Her online life, which means her life, was a Noir tragedy: so it had been decreed by the impersonal Fates of statistical clustering. The game world and…
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Marcelo Rinesi
March 2023
A Sense of Identity
When the doors opened you were so surprised you almost didn’t take off the neural reading crown. The machine couldn’t read individual thoughts but it…
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Criminogenic Tech
She entered her bedroom to find a man she couldn’t recognize drinking coffee on her bed with the million-yard stare of somebody working with his neural…
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Targeting Protocols
When the assassin asked for an updated map of the city her local contact linked her to a forum; the assassin was too good to discount their advice just…
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