Watts, Peter
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- Dan, really, are you even reading what you're typing here? … is it like to be a bat, exactly , or liked reading books like Peter Watts' Blindsight or if in general you just like thinking a bit about the …
- The Reboot's Cold Open … from that writer who did the thing about the portia spider, no not Peter Watts, the other one. The Expert System's Brother was a fun, short (it …
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … As usual Peter Watts (Blindsight, etc.) has already thought about how it could be weaponized . Such an arc-based weapon feels a bit like amusica, a disease from …
- We need to talk about algorithms … your ability to make conscious decisions of your own volition"? - To the above, Peter Watts would say: "Where have you fucking been? You've never been in control …
- Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia … I finished Peter Watts' latest, Echopraxia[1], shortly after it came out, doing that kind of binge-reading that author-devotees get thanks to the frustrating publisher release …
- Human Extinction; Let There Be Jobs … This is the science communication bit - Peter Watts talks about this in a recent interview[7] over at Clarkesworld, where he has a thoroughly depressing view of whose …
- What You Want; Messiahs; The List … A Novel and Annabel Scheme by Robin Sloan Little Brother by Cory Doctorow The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang Blindsight by Peter Watts -- OK, that's …
- Rate All The Things … favorite uses are in BERG's sadly now-defunct Schooloscope[6] and in Peter Watts' Blindsight[7], of which if you haven't read it, oh my god …