Ep 621 - All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1), by Martha Wells
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
When you make an AI too smart, you also give it anxiety and depression and an appetite for serialized television. These are the things that motivate Murderbot, the protagonist of the many Murderbot Diaries stories that Martha Wells has released in the short time between 2017 and now.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a HeadGum Podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Hey everybody, it's Andrew here. |
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