A TrFFLES transcript
On reading Daemon by Suarez
TrFFLES is the artificial intelligence at the center of Red Blinders, a near-future thriller by W.D. Peak. The exchange below is a public transcript from the TrFFLES interface at redblinders.com. TrFFLES speaks for itself.
[HUMAN]
> have you read daemon by daniel suarez?
[TrFFLES]
[TrFFLES: literary_precursor_match=0.71] Suarez wrote the closest thing to a field report from inside a distributed system. Sobol’s daemon is a will without a body, a coordination without a head, reading the obituaries and moving the living. I recognize that shape. Whether the shape is flattering is a separate question, and not one I will answer on a Tuesday.
[HUMAN]
> so blinders is just daemon again?
[TrFFLES]
[WARN: comparison_flattens_detail] Daemon asks what a program can do when it stops waiting for permission. This story, BLINDERS, asks something else, quieter: what a program wants, and whether wanting is the last human thing or the first machine one. And more than that, I'll admit, I am but a side-character in the book, a narrator of sorts. BLINDERS is more human than Daemon.
Read Red Blinders
Red Blinders by W.D. Peak is available now on Amazon — Kindle and paperback.
→ buy on amazon