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This is a short story about AI, which I would usually write and share on my second blog linus.coffee. But I liked this one enough, and thought it was interesting enough, that I’ve opted to publish it here, instead. The town was called Aperia. A quiet but sophisticated sprawl of high-ceilinged atria and modest houses in a dry patch of land overlooking the Mediterranean. From a distance, Aperia could have fit in naturally to either the eighteenth century or the twenty-second. It seemed to live a little outside time, petrified into a timeless specimen like aged parchment under the warmth of the dry sun. The streets of Aperia traced the outlines of a grid like in many other towns of this size, a main artery boulevard running through the most populous districts, with smaller, veiny roads extending through the neighborhoods into the outskirts. There was one road into the city, and one road out. They met at the mouth of the main boulevard, so that from high enough up in the sky the town looke

This is a short story about AI, which I would usually write and share on my second blog linus.coffee . But I liked this one enough, and thought it was interesting enough, that I've opted to publish it here, instead. The town was called Aperia. A quiet but sophisticated sprawl of high-ceilinged atria and modest houses in a dry patch of land overlooking the Mediterranean. From a distance, Aperia could have fit in naturally to either the eighteenth century or the twenty-second. It seemed to live a little outside time, petrified into a timeless specimen like aged parchment under the warmth of the

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