alt Hacker NewsThis reminds me of a scene in "A Fire Upon the Deep" (1992) where they're on a video call with someone on another spaceship; but something seems a bit "off". Then someone notices that the actual bitrate they're getting from the other vessel is tiny -- far lower than they should be getting given the conditions -- and so most of what they're seeing on their own screens isn't actual video feed, but their local computer's reconstruction.
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miohtama • 11/08/2024
And also it was a deep fake.
BTW This is the best sci-fi book ever.
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_kb • 11/09/2024
At least for audio, that dystopia is already shipping in end-user product: https://blog.webex.com/collaboration/hybrid-work/next-level-...
janandonly • 11/08/2024
I came here to reply just this exactly and found a fellow geek beat me to it. Indeed a brilliant book.
Was that the same book that had the concept of (paraphrasing using modern terminology) doing interstellar communications by sending back and forth LLMs trained on the people who wanted to talk, prompted to try and get a good business deal or whatever?