20 points | by irdc 3 hours ago
6 comments
Previous discussion 09.nov.2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931273 32 comments
It hits very differently in 2026 with people outsourcing their thinking to AI
There's some more discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/1u76f8l/the_feeling...
Reminds me of the Butlerian Jihad in Dune and how the anti-ai revolt led to the rise of human thinking machines. They're the ones that roll back their eyes in the movies when they're calculating.
Epub version is 170mb — is there an easy way to compress or download in a format I can send to an e-reader?
Would like to know the thoughts of others around this book who are looking at this in 2026 vs 2009.
Oops, link got munged. Should be: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/4/mode/2up
Previous discussion 09.nov.2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931273 32 comments
It hits very differently in 2026 with people outsourcing their thinking to AI
There's some more discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/1u76f8l/the_feeling...
Reminds me of the Butlerian Jihad in Dune and how the anti-ai revolt led to the rise of human thinking machines. They're the ones that roll back their eyes in the movies when they're calculating.
Epub version is 170mb — is there an easy way to compress or download in a format I can send to an e-reader?
Would like to know the thoughts of others around this book who are looking at this in 2026 vs 2009.
Oops, link got munged. Should be: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/4/mode/2up