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  • From Zack’s LessWrong post, last footnote:

    Though we’re unlikely to get it*, I’ve sometimes wished for a Greg Egan–Robin Hanson collaboration; I think Egan’s masterful understanding of the physical world and Hanson’s unsentimental analysis of the social world would complement each other well.

    Hell yeah dude!!! That’s almost as good as my idea for an Ursula K. Le Guin–Adolf Hitler collaboration! Can’t wait for GPT5!

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    lmao


  • I’ve avoided reading Greg Egan until like last year because I entirely expected him to be a cold stemlord shithead and people only talk about his earlier books that have more to do with consciousness and identity and stuff, which these days feels very zzzzz, but he is SO COOL and SO FUN!!! He cares in a deep way about people, lived experience, about societies, he loves physics and maths in themselves because they’re beautiful and fun and not because they’re ways to look smart or reveal the secrets of the universe, his books are very beautiful. Complete opposite of Yud, Scott, nostalgebraist (I have a grudge) et al.'s silly books.