Destination Void
by Frank Herbert · first published 1966
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I know I'm weird because I absolutely despise Dune the book and the movies but I like everything else Frank Herbert wrote including Destination Void and its sequels, the BuSab stories, Eyes of Heisenberg, etc.
on “Hellstrom's Hive” ↗"When HARLIE Was One" by David Gerrold had a fair amount of technical detail IIRC. Also "Destination: Void" by Frank Herbert.
on “Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?” ↗“Destination: Void” and it’s sequel “The Jesus Incident” (I didn’t read the two other books of the serie) by Frank Herbert. “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Insane to think this book has been written in 1920.
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite fiction book?” ↗Frank Herbert's Destination: Void arguably takes one through such a scenario, a highly recommended read!
on “In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy” ↗I like the Dosadi books, Whipping Star, the short stories in Eye, Eyes of Heisenberg, Destination: Void, The Santaroga Barrier (which my wife hates), Under Pressure and Hellstrom's Hive. If I had to pick just one it might be Whipping Star but maybe Under Pressure is the hardest sci-fi.
on “Vernor Vinge has died” ↗…read Hitchhiker 20 times but never read Asimov or Heinlein or Dick or Smith or LeGunn or Pohl or... I am a big fan of Frank Herbert's other books, particularly The Santaroga Barrier, Under Pressure, Destination Void, Eyes of Heisenberg, Whipping Star and the Dosadi books. I can't stand Dune but for some reason people read it over and over again and don't get into the rest of Herbert never mind any other authors.…
on “Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing” ↗Interesting to compare Frank Herbert's Destination: Void: The crew are just caretakers: the ship is controlled by a disembodied human brain, called "Organic Mental Core" or "OMC", that runs the complex operations of the vessel and keeps it moving in space.…
on “Compiling an application for use in highly radio-active environments” ↗All this GPT stuff feels reminiscent of Frank Herbert's novel: Destination Void ...
on “Microsoft Research: GPT-4 exhibits “sparks of general intelligence”” ↗…"tries to appear to be intelligent". That is why I prefer to call them "bots" or "computers" - just to separate them from a shifting mess of definitions of what "AI" actually means. It reminds me of "Destination Void" by Frank Herbert, where the main characters were trying to build artificial consciousness and were struggling to define what it actually means.
on “OpenRA” ↗and here I am reading Frank Herbet's Destination : Void which deals with developing a consciousness. From ideas of introducing emotions to purposefully having errors in the system
on “Can AI Become Conscious?” ↗