These two go way back. They were all friends once, long ago, at the start of the project. There were five of them all together, but the real philosophical rift was between Væri and Blit. The others were forced to take sides, but by then they'd all been trapped inside the System they'd been building and the conflict was unavoidable. It nearly caused the System to collapse into oblivion. Nearly.

#bitkin #administrators #vaeri #blit #multiplearms

On the bright side, if #AI keeps up like this, we'll soon be able to ask it to create a working version of #Polybius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(urban_legend)) and all be driven insane 👍 or a #BLIT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)). They're both fine options.

#SciFi

So, someone here mentioned #BLIT BASILISK and so I looked it up & read this story http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
Is it a widely known #cyberpunk story? It's certainly conceptually interesting. The protagonist is clearly racist & homophobic & there's references to The Troubles that I can't parse. I dunno if the writer is supporting the protagonist Robbo's views tho?

"BLIT is a 1988 science fiction short story by the British writer David Langford"
... and is recommended reading!
#blit
#parrot

@th