/u/m_rt_'s posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A signal from deep in space reaches earth. Finally! First contact with an intelligent alien race! But the decoded message makes little sense: "On our way back to Earth. Mission accomplished. Can't wait to get home."
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[WP] An alien race maintains ascendancy as the only intelligent race by playing the long game: seeding worlds with mineral resources that will put any evolving life on a path to eventual self destruction. "Earth deploy complete. No intelligent life yet." reported the drone.
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[WP] How could we have known that the key to unlocking true artificial intelligence was for machines to sleep? The breakthrough had immediate and astounding impact to every aspect of our lives. But then, nobody suspected that machines could have nightmares.
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[WP] You are a big data engineer working in a social media and in your spare time you built a pet project that builds profiles of prominent people from history based on historical record, then cross references against real people's social media profiles. You've never seen a match, until today.
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