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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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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
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.
god damn, maybe my internalized ideal of a sci fi author is Asimov but not a shithead? depressing. I need better sci-fi
no, the fault is mine. He's written tons, I tried this and bounced off it. I might take a look at Diaspora
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.