User:Gwern/Rule 34 (novel)

See "Rule 34", coming next year. (Yes, /b/ is a possible revolutionary development for the future of society.) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/interview-1.html#comment-57602

how far you think the 3d printing, particularly of open source digital products, could realistically go?

See my novel "Rule 34", coming next July ... http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/interview-1.html#comment-57011

Would you consider writing a book where gender or other sociocultural issues are at the fore? I loved that aspect of Glasshouse.

See also "Rule 34", coming next July. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/interview-1.html#comment-57011

future ref for article: Stross lurked on 4chan as part of research http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/interview-1.html#comment-56796

Ain't gonna happen, if you're thinking in terms of procedural AI; it's a dead field. Emulation of chunks of human neuroanatomy is likely, but there will be unforseen gotchas -- for one thing, we don't know for sure (yet) how discrete neural functioning is, or even what all the cells in our brains do (I'm looking at you, glial cells). Nor do we know what intelligence is; a good rule of thumb is, if we can do it with computers it isn't general intelligence.

(I've written more about this, but you'll need to wait until "Rule 34" is in print.) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/interview-1.html#comment-57746