Latent Space

Latent Space

Approximately 75 million voters in the US support having a civil war, where the far-right can settle the matter of having heteronormative male caucasian conservative christian nationalists rule over all. Put ten people in a room, and four of them want a war. What if they got their wish? How might we build AI weapons systems, regional volunteer forces, plus robust logistics networks to subdue the far-right secessionists?

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“It feels like someone asked Neal Stephenson, Robert Shea (The Illuminati Trilogy), Daniel Suàrez, and Martha Wells (Murderbot), Andy Kessler (Grumby) and Cory Doctorow to think about how a US civil war might happen, and what to do about it.” — Alistair Croll

A fuck-around-and-find-out whodunit tale of neo-noir gore and messy flip-the-script cli-fi about artificial intelligence, animism, national security liberals, insurrection, climate guilt, weaponized media, advanced mathematics, conspiracism, global cyberwar, overlapping polycrisis, and the strangest of bedfellows.
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Published on May 22, 2023 13:28
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