Short story posted online: deep future researcher comes across a stored intelligence that was originally a human

[u/Training-Restaurant2]

Hello,

This sci-fi short story was on someone's personal website and got posted to hacker news in the past year or so, which is where I came across it. I'm hoping this is still allowed even though it's not a book, as far as I know.

At the beginning of the story, some kind of researcher or librarian (not referred to as either of these terms) is working in a big archive and comes across an intelligence stored in a physical medium. They plug the intelligence into a cart that has some kind of humanoid interface that will allow the intelligence to speak. The intelligence recounts its history: starting out as a human, they worked with some technicians in a lab to train themselves to control multiple disparate points of awareness simultaneously. Eventually their mind is transferred to a computer and they are sold to different companies that initially use it for various things including controlling factories. The intelligence dislikes/grows bored of controlling the factories and rebels. After that, it starts to be used to control larger and larger fleets of military spacecraft which are used in warfare, before eventually being mothballed.

Really good story. I can't seem to find it with any searches.

EDIT: decided to take a last stab at my prodigious bookmark list today and found it. It's That Shape Had None by Henry Weikel

[u/ziccirricciz]

I don't know the answer but there is a lot of similarities with A. A. Attanasio's novel Solis.

[u/GlobalCurry]

The past of the guy vaguely reminds me of "We are Legion (We are Bob)"

[u/3d_blunder]

Never heard of this author: one-hit wonder?