MichaelVassar comments on The Dark Arts - Preamble - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Aurini 11 October 2010 02:01PM

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Comment author: chris_elliott 11 October 2010 11:11:09PM 19 points [-]

In Ian M Banks' novel 'Excession', the term meatfucker is used as an derogatory term for AIs that violate a cultural taboo again reading human minds.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 16 October 2010 03:00:16PM 2 points [-]

Don't mindreaders have better information than Banks does on whether people want their minds to be read or not?