A Very Literary Wiki

Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Published 2008, available online. Part of the 'Sequences'. Apparently not all his fiction is on his main site under Fiction :(

First read (May 19th 2012)[]

Format[]

Online, 18472 characters, putting it at 10 'standard' pages.

Journal[]

Read it on May 19th 2012, after looking at Yudkowsky's latest comments on LessWrong and seeing one with just a link to this. The name intrigued me, and it turned out to be an interesting sort of short story, but part of his 'Sequences', so intended to be instructional.

I thought it was a fascinating and compelling way of imagining the way a trapped AI might escape its confines with incredible ease, and how it might see us. Bravo!

Rating[]

3

Second read (September 11th 2012)[]

Format[]

As above.

Journal[]

It had returned to my consciousness a couple of times since first reading it, and on the 11th of September 2012 I was looking at short stories on the wiki and reread this one.

Still good.

Rating[]

3