#Stross's "Slow AI" as a theory of the corporation puts in an appearance at #BradDelong's blog today.. (A neater formulation of #BrewsterKahle's "1st generation AI").
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/hoisted-from-the-archives-a-return
Dan Davies's book "The Unaccountability Machine" comes out in its U.S. edition today. So let me hoist the scattered, disorganized, self-indulgent and too-long review I wrote of it last year. I...
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Es gibt durchaus noch ein paar andere SF&Fantasy Autor*innen, die auch Serien schreiben/schrieben, deren Bücher auch einzeln Sinn machen.
Beispiele, die mir auf Anhieb einfallen:
Louis McMasters Bujold: Die Vorkosigan Saga
Jasper FForde: Friday Next Serie
Marion Zimmer Bradley: Darkover
Charles Stross: Laundry Files
You like d&d? And mermaids? I gotchya.
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PWYW can mean free or it can mean a couple of dollars. I don't really mind. :) It's got unicorns (from Beagle to Stross) big tree people and tiny murder sprites and tinkerbells as well. I write other stuff too. 😀 Some really good stuff. 😀
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This is the 10th of the 40 books I got for my birthday. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and got through it faster than I expected. The review below contains spoilers (below the cut). This is a relatively hard SF book that explores ideas around a post-human robot civilisation with themes of slavery, corruption and what it is that makes tick. The plot that does this is like a corkscrew and at times it takes surprising directions. [DN: link to Charlie’s blog post here. ] The key characters in the story are robots (although they mostly avoid that as a term, seeing it as a strong pejorative). They come in lineages sharing a common template personality which is then modified by their experiences. All of the main characters are humanoid generalists and so are of the people in a mask […]
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David W. Jones
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Jesse Vincent
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