Auto-naming agent names star systems after Linux commands: Netstat, Ping, Fdisk
anderssandberg · x · 2026-09-09
Oxford researcher Anders Sandberg shares a sci-fi flavored bit: astronomers orbit a star system named "Netstat," then find Ls, Ping, Su and Fdisk nearby — turns out an auto-onomasticon agent in the IAU cloud used Linux commands as its namespace. "It could have been worse," he adds, noting an even more crudely named neighboring system.
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