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Noone was trying to force that on them though, the actual reason IIRC correctly that Idirans had a religious imperative for expansion, and the Culture had a moral imperative to prevent other sentients' suffering at the hands of the Idirans.

IMO he mostly sidestepped the issue by clarifying that this is NOT a future version of "us"

That is a beautiful comparison. Terrifying, but beautifully fitting.

I read Stross right after Banks. I think if I hadn't, I'd be an AI-hype-bro. Banks it the potential that could be, Stross is what we'll inevitably turn AI into.

Oh, alright. The original creator works for Microsoft (presumably on Linux related things?), but systemd itself is still OSS

What??

(As in, could you kindly elaborate?)

This is the first mention of Accelerando I've seen in the wild. (Assuming it is. I'm not sure.)

The company I work at uses selfhosted Mattermost. Granted, we're <50 Employees, so I don't know how well it scales for larger companies.