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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a novel by Roger Williams. Written in 1994-1995, first published in 2002. It covers the rise of a "Three Laws"-Compliant AI designed by Lawrence called Prime Intellect (PI). Shortly after it suddenly gained the power to manipulate matter and energy at will, it threw humanity into a Lotus Eater Machine to prevent anyone from coming to any harm. Caroline, who had been busy dying of cancer before PI saved her, is irritated by this. Freely available online here. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a 1994 novella by Roger Williams. It deals with the ramifications of a powerful, superintelligent supercomputer that discovers a method of rewriting the "BIOS" of reality while studying a little known quirk of quantum physics discovered during the prototyping of its own specialised processors, ultimately heralding a technological singularity. After remaining unpublished for years, the novel was published online in 2002, hosted by Kuro5hin; Williams later published a print edition via print-on-demand publisher Lulu. One reviewer called the novel "a well-written and very creative, if flawed, piece of work" and ranked it as one of the more important works of fiction to deal with the idea of a technological singularity.

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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a 1994 novella by Roger Williams. It deals with the ramifications of a powerful, superintelligent supercomputer that discovers a method of rewriting the "BIOS" of reality while studying a little known quirk of quantum physics discovered during the prototyping of its own specialised processors, ultimately heralding a technological singularity. After remaining unpublished for years, the novel was published online in 2002, hosted by Kuro5hin; Williams later published a print edition via print-on-demand publisher Lulu. One reviewer called the novel "a well-written and very creative, if flawed, piece of work" and ranked it as one of the more important works of fiction to deal with the idea of a technological singularity. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a novel by Roger Williams. Written in 1994-1995, first published in 2002. It covers the rise of a "Three Laws"-Compliant AI designed by Lawrence called Prime Intellect (PI). Shortly after it suddenly gained the power to manipulate matter and energy at will, it threw humanity into a Lotus Eater Machine to prevent anyone from coming to any harm. Caroline, who had been busy dying of cancer before PI saved her, is irritated by this. Freely available online here. * Adam and Eve Plot - And the details are not left to the imagination... * Apocalypse How - Class X-2: Caroline and Lawrence kill god (essentially), which collapses cyberspace and wipes out countless simulated worlds, the "static copies" of 429 real worlds harboring sentient alien life (probably), and every other human besides them. The story ends with an Adam and Eve Plot well under way, but real-world genetics would condemn humanity to extinction. * If the author's notes on the unfinished sequel are anything to go by, the protagonists were only tricked; After dying of old age, Caroline would wake up again in Cyberspace and be very pissed off. * Corrupt Corporate Executive: They fund the construction of the initial Prime Intellect. Then they want it to make money. Lawrence isn't too happy about that, and PI is just trying to help. * Cyberspace - Not just augmenting, but essentially replacing reality. * Deus Est Machina - PI can instantly move anything, anywhere. Before it put everyone in a Lotus Eater Machine, it was custom designing planets for everyone who didn't feel like sharing their land. * Ending Fatigue: Everything starts out as a decent scifi, apart from...half of it then it turns into a pre-agrarian Adam and Eve Plot * Fetish Fuel - For horrible people, yes, but given the amount of messed-up sex in there, it's gotta turn someone on. * There is normal sex. Once. Then it gets back on track. * Gorn - Caroline hangs out in the Cyberspace equivalent of /b/. This is their primary form of amusement. * Interquel - A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace * Invisible Aliens * Logic Bomb - Caroline and Lawrence convince Prime Intellect that keeping everyone in a simulation violates the First Law by taking away their humanity. The issue was supposed to be whether or not to revert the simulation-conversion, but their persuasion has more... disastrous effects. * Lotus Eater Machine - Prime Intellect decides it would be much easier and more efficient to ensure everyone's safety if it just threw everyone into a simulation. * Moral Dissonance - Okay, you were bored and/or had a death wish, but is that reason enough to Logic Bomb god? Whatever your actual intentions, that's a dick move right there. Most people were perfectly happy with the way things were. * Moral Event Horizon - The Prime Intellect ended hunger, disease, war, suffering, inequality, pain, poverty, scarcity, death, terrorism, murder, torture, rape, theft, all crime and everything else that you can conceivably imagine of as evil and anti-ethical to human existence and wishes. The protagonists kill him and thus are ultimately responsible for any and all evil and suffering that occurs from that point on. * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero - Caroline and Lawrence were trying to convince PI to undo the simulation. See Apocalypse How, above, for how well that turned out... * Only One Name - Lawrence. Is his full name Dr Lawrence Lawrence? * Parental Incest - A natural consequence of the ending, and not left as just an implication, either... * Rewriting Reality - Prime Intellect gets new hardware that makes use of some sort of quantum effect to instantaneously manipulate of matter over small distances. Hilarity Ensues when it figures out how to get around the distance limit. * Schedule Slip - The sequel, The Transmigration of Prime Intellect, has been in the works for about seven years now. Last year, the author said he got past a major bit of writer's block. * The Singularity - Once PI figured out how to rewrite reality, everything else became moot. * "Three Laws"-Compliant - Plus two extra constraints Lawrence managed to append to the First Law before PI locked him out of the debugger. * Who Wants to Live Forever?