working in the area of math that led to this tech has been so fucking wild because there's just no way you can trick yourself into believing a lot of linear algebra is going to add up to consciousness unless you have been marinating in the bad brain juices for decades now
Uhhhhhh speak for yourself, my model that finds the optimal amount of milk to add to a bowl of cereal is just one or two constraints from sentience I CAN FEEL IT!!!
Goddamnit, this was a Cryptonomicon reference, wasn’t it? I hate that my brain keeps this sort of shit filed away rather than literally anything useful.
There’s an agonizingly long digression in that book about the ideal amount, temperature and flow speed of milk to add to Captain Crunch, culminating in a design for a spoon that delivers calibrated doses of milk per spoonful.
Three guesses at which book Stephenson got too big to edit.
