This is a unique list of science-fiction books. I can relate to the experience you describe, and now I need to read some of these that are new to me.

the author didn't write anything like that

Direct quote from article:

> They realized money could be made, and built a website to let other people do the same thing, through them, not Craig[slist]. This is important: the very first act of creation was an act of piracy. What AirBnB does today is no different

Doesn't commit to it being a clone.

It's already been flagged and un-flagged. I'm sure that will keep happening.

It's on the front page.

I still see it on the New list.

absolutely savage. no notes.

Seems pretty straightforward that AI wiping out humans is a bad thing.

media diet! healthy distance from social media, etc.

Good points here. I wish this issue specifically was discussed more openly and honestly: "A dirty little secret of action metrics is how often the success signal — a button click or a form submission — is immediately followed by a meandering session of actions that obviously signals confusion and possibly even regret. Often, confusion is easier to perceive from session data than much else."

There's a lot of printing in Gibson stuff. Check out The Peripheral if you haven't already.

Gibson described cyberspace as "a consensual hallucination" which is still an incredibly good phrase

I love the implication of how that differs from reality's nonconsensual hallucination.

> nonconsensual hallucination

Pretty sure this is just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts, i.e. being lied to or deceived

or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie

Or this.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious

Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetype

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” - P. K. Dick. That's a better expression of the concept.

Cyberspace doesn't go away when you stop believing in it either.

I deleted Facebook, too.