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What's that book or story you vaguely remember reading but forgot the title of and can't find it anywhere anymore? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Karl@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I had begun reading a short story or a novel on gutenberg.org couple of years ago (Those who don't know, it's a site where you can find all kinds of public domain ebooks.) The story was set in a distant future where people time travel to various time periods of the past and live there and thereby drain resources of the past. There was some kind of structure called time dome or smth like that. It read from the pov of a guy called Ted, Tom or Taylor. I had to uninstall my browser and therefore lose all data. Tried to find it, but couldn't. It was interesting enough for me to remember even today.

Edit: I can't believe this myself, but I somehow found it and it was actually reaalllyy easy. Took me like 30 seconds. I just went to Project Gutenberg, opened the books about time travel section, scrolled down and down and there it was... Tyrants of Time by Milton Lesser. Even though I read it in Gutenberg.org, not once did I look up in Gutenberg itself. I made social media posts, googled it, asked chatgpt and all that. I have no idea why I didn't look it up in Gutenberg itself. And the structure I called 'Time Dome' was actually Eradrome, it's a place that facilitates time travel. And the protagonist is actually Tedor Barwan. Damn, I'm really stupid!!

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[–] BennyInc@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

A story I read about a company (?) creating an AGI which for safety reasons is disconnected from the internet. It then creates business plans or something for them, and they give it more and more compute power, until it can generate fantastic movies and series for people to enjoy. They publish those stories which become instant successes. The AGI slowly uses these movies to make society a better one by influencing the viewers subconsciously. I don’t remember the ending, but it was quite a good story.