Comment by habitue
5 years ago
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]
... 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.