The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

A 1994 sci-fi novella by Roger Williams, available online.
==Length==
173 standard pagesCopied full text into Notepad++..
==First read (December 2013)==
===Format===
Online, on my phone
===Journal===
Can't tell now, even just 2 days on, how I got linked to it, but on the 21st of December 2013 I bookmarked it for later reading, and then got stuck in that night. I finished it off over the next day.
I thought it was a really good and satisfying treatment of AI and The Singularity. It was more intellectually than emotionally satisfying, but it gets a 3 nonetheless.
===Rating===
3
===Reading record===
Simultaneous books: Assassin's Quest, Worm
==First read (September 2018)==
===Format===
Online, on my phone
===Journal===
Read it in a few days, although I can't remember what prompted me. I looked it up and noticed I'd already read it and rated it highly, but I couldn't remember it.
I was somewhat shocked at the graphic violence and did not enjoy reading about the death jockeys, but once it got into exploring Prime Intellect's growth and continued struggle with morality it got interesting. It was highly unrealistic, of course - getting AI so right would be unimaginably unlikely - so I only enjoyed it as an intellectual exercise. I found the ending a bit depressing. I've already struggled to avoid nihilistic conclusions to metaphysics and this just supported it.
Still, it was well written and thought provoking.
===Rating===
2
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