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>>davidb+(OP)
- Corporate-owned proprietary AIs? Check.

- Monitoring of power consumption for illegal computer usage? Check.

- Superintelligent AIs under tight supervision? Check.

- Bootlegged neural nets passed around on torrenting networks? Check.

- Poverty and homelessness running rampant? Check.

Folks, we're officially living in a cyberpunk dystopia.

>>genera+H4
We've done steampunk (British Empire), dieselpunk (American Empire) and entering now cyberpunk territory. History keeps getting curioser and curioser. The runaway monkeys are creating runaway supercomputers.