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@ESYudkowsky: Remember when you were a kid and thought you might have psychic powers, so you dealt yourself face-down playing cards and tried to guess whether they were red or black, and recorded your accuracy rate over several batches of tries?

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And then remember how you had absolutely no idea to do stats at that age, so you stayed confused for a while longer?

Apologies for the usage of the japanese; but it is a very apt description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chūnibyō,

  • kunaEnglish
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    2 years ago

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    • selfMAEnglish
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      2 years ago

      it’s weird I found out about Diaspora (also a really good book) from the rat-adjacent crowd posting excerpts on the orange site, but Egan keeps sneering at that portion of his fan base in his books

      • geriksonEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I tried reading one Egan book (Incandescence) and had to give up because it was 90% infodump. Glad to see he’s mocking rats though.

        • selfMAEnglish
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          2 years ago

          god damn, maybe my internalized ideal of a sci fi author is Asimov but not a shithead? depressing. I need better sci-fi

          • geriksonEnglish
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            2 years ago

            no, the fault is mine. He’s written tons, I tried this and bounced off it. I might take a look at Diaspora

            • kunaEnglish
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              2 years ago

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              • geriksonEnglish
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                2 years ago

                Take a look at Ken MacLeod’s Fall Revolution series, if you haven’t already. They’re a bit old now but are a nice counterweight to a lot of US SF.