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Having finished a rereading of Stross's Accelerando, I was thinking that the whole "superhuman intelligence arises from autonomous financial instruments" thing was kind of silly; then it occurred to me that in real life one of the software systems into which the most #ai effort is being poured, started out as a website for college students to evaluate each other's hotness..
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Ha! So imagine if the Meta corporation is still around in 500 years — used for asteroid-mining robots and interstellar communications and what not — and the corporate story is: "It all began as a website for college students to evaluate each other's hotness…"