2) Hiro
Personally, I think Eliezer stole the name Hiro from Snow Crash (seriously, he’s named ‘Hiro Protagonist’, so it fits the story perfectly...) and forgot to run the search-and-replace.
Personally, I think Eliezer stole the name Hiro from Snow Crash (seriously, he’s named ‘Hiro Protagonist’, so it fits the story perfectly...) and forgot to run the search-and-replace.