Cultivation story, but instead of cultivation, it’s a post AGI story in a world that’s mostly a utopia. But, there are AGI overlords, which are basically benevolent.
There’s a very stubborn young man, born in the classical sense (though without any problems like ageing disease, serious injuries, sickness, etc that people used to have—and without his mother having any of the screaming pain that childbirth used to have, or risk of life), who hates the state of power imbalance.
He doesnt want the Gods to just give him power (intelligence) - he wants to find the intelligence algorithms himself, with his peers, find the True Algorithm of Intelligence and Surpass the Gods. Even while the Gods are constant observers. He wants to do what the confused people around him think to be impossible.
His neighbours dont understand why. His cousin, who lives in the techno-hive doesn’t understand why—though he thinks that he does, from a lot of data and background on similar figures before and a large understanding of brains and intelligence. The boy’s cousin’s understanding is close, but despite coming close to a minima, he arrives at the wrong one, that just seems to explain what he’s understood from his observations.
Some of the confused people around him think that surely anything he can find, the Gods would have found ages ago—and even if he finds something new, surely they’ll learn it from observing him and just do it much much faster—he could just ask them to uplift him and they’d do it, this is a bit of a waste of time (even though everyone lives as long as they want)
AIgainst the Gods
Cultivation story, but instead of cultivation, it’s a post AGI story in a world that’s mostly a utopia. But, there are AGI overlords, which are basically benevolent.
There’s a very stubborn young man, born in the classical sense (though without any problems like ageing disease, serious injuries, sickness, etc that people used to have—and without his mother having any of the screaming pain that childbirth used to have, or risk of life), who hates the state of power imbalance.
He doesnt want the Gods to just give him power (intelligence) - he wants to find the intelligence algorithms himself, with his peers, find the True Algorithm of Intelligence and Surpass the Gods. Even while the Gods are constant observers. He wants to do what the confused people around him think to be impossible.
His neighbours dont understand why. His cousin, who lives in the techno-hive doesn’t understand why—though he thinks that he does, from a lot of data and background on similar figures before and a large understanding of brains and intelligence. The boy’s cousin’s understanding is close, but despite coming close to a minima, he arrives at the wrong one, that just seems to explain what he’s understood from his observations.
to be clear, instead of cultivating Qi, it’s RSI
and trying to learn to do it faster than the Gods are
gods being the AGIs
Some of the confused people around him think that surely anything he can find, the Gods would have found ages ago—and even if he finds something new, surely they’ll learn it from observing him and just do it much much faster—he could just ask them to uplift him and they’d do it, this is a bit of a waste of time (even though everyone lives as long as they want)