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Really good, and I love the wikipedia format for this. It's a great trope allowing the author to gesture at related topics in a format we're all familiar with.

I think the expectation of a neutral tone from a wikipedia article makes it even more chilling. All of the actions of the experimenters are described dispassionately, as if describing experiments on a beetle.

Robin Hanson wrote a (nominally non-fiction) book about economies of copied minds like this[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Em




... inspiring that famous song "The Contract Drafting Em" - The special horror when your employer has root on your brain:

https://secularsolstice.github.io/Contract_Drafting_Em/gen/


One of the commenters even made it look like a wikipedia page. See https://dump.cy.md/4042875593f06aa0cbe7722295831c10/Screensh...


The Wikipedia format made me imagine the cloud of article improvements reverted by idle, self-important Wikipedia editors.




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