A cool idea that I will never check out due to a subscription model. Cool thinking though!
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dcra commented on LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator twitter.com/paulbiggar/st... · Posted by u/bqe
> Paul ends up tweeting about it and making a huge deal around something he has no idea about. He gets a bunch of people on Twitter upset about something they don't know about.
I gave him the benefit of doubt, but should have been more skeptical upon seeing pronouns in bio. It's a curiously predictive heuristic. For whatever reason, pronoun people tend to be particularly good at generating internet drama.
Yeah, or we want to be treated like humans. Find a better heuristic.
dcra commented on Elon Musk Disliked His Kids’ Schools – So He Started His Own medium.com/age-of-awarene... · Posted by u/evakeiffenheim
How's the emerald mining curriculum?
Hear, hear. It starts with the birthing of a new AI, the proceeds to its education, its migration into a physical form, its migration into space, the migration into encoded form based on the geometry of a biological organism -- and all of this ancillary to the central plot.
It is a fantastic book, but unfortunately (as far as I can tell) seems to be out of print in paperback, which is a shame.
I would add another Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
A collection of (mostly) spoiler-free quotes to emphasise my point: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
The book that got me back into mathematics and computers, and led me into CS. Can't recommend it enough.