‘Smart Person Is Dumb’ Score: 4/5 This felt quite short, or I raced through it somehow. Nice and readable, but still fairly light. (Yeah, I still miss Iain M. Banks and The Culture.) It did feel a bit of a daft premise though. We have researchers now dedicating their lives to figuring out the problem of alignment of godlike AIs (even though we don’t have such godlike AIs yet), we have myths and legends of…
‘What’s Not To Love?’ Score: 4/5 Another romp with the Moscow Watch. Some enemies become allies, some new enemies appear, and some nice bits to keep you guessing. What’s not to love?
‘More Of The Same’ Score: 3/5 I think I've run out of steam with this series. There's only so many times we can do the 'sergeant outsmarts hyperintelligent AI' before it gets repetitive and predictable. The author tried to shake things up this time with different perspectives for some chapters, but it didn't really work for me. Ah well.
I’ve been playing around with Serum Swap pools since they were launched a couple of days ago. The idea is simple - like Uniswap on Ethereum, Swap maintains two pools of tokens and you can ‘buy’ some tokens from one pool by paying tokens…
‘I Miss The Culture’ Score: 4/5 It’s not that there’s anything wrong with this book - it’s a good book - but sentient spaceships with consciousness and their own motivations always makes me miss The Culture novels from Iain M. Banks. This book is fun, but it’s not a Culture novel - and that’s not the author’s fault.
