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Language is the alien virus. It pulled us up from our monkey lives so that we could build it a better host.
So far my platform experience has been:
BlueSky — good platform, but a high number of crypto skeptics. Easier to generate content for noobs.
X — definitely feels like the oxygen got sucked out of the room, but OGs still around
Farcaster — definitely feel like a small mouse in a room full of lions because everyone here is big brain 🥹
BlueSky — good platform, but a high number of crypto skeptics. Easier to generate content for noobs.
X — definitely feels like the oxygen got sucked out of the room, but OGs still around
Farcaster — definitely feel like a small mouse in a room full of lions because everyone here is big brain 🥹
Finally returned to Maud and Mara and reviewed where I left off. Not ready to publish the next chapter of their lives but feeling good to have visited my characters again.
The story plays on earth. So far I have no interests in bringing in a new planet or space fare into the journey. I'm inspired by Fahrenheit 451, Neuromancer, and the Borderlines (Peter Høeg).
https://paragraph.com/@cheshirecat/muted-words-mauds-new-world
The story plays on earth. So far I have no interests in bringing in a new planet or space fare into the journey. I'm inspired by Fahrenheit 451, Neuromancer, and the Borderlines (Peter Høeg).
https://paragraph.com/@cheshirecat/muted-words-mauds-new-world
This might be one of the best sci fi books I’ve ever read. I can’t wait to read the whole series.
"The task of the science fiction writer is to predict not the automobile, but the traffic jam."
@ontologymachine and I's sci-fi made it into the latest Agorist journal, check it out!
https://agorist.xyz/iii/katabasis.html
@ontologymachine and I's sci-fi made it into the latest Agorist journal, check it out!
https://agorist.xyz/iii/katabasis.html
with how fucked up the ethics of big tech companies are, humanity isn't ready for that
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/chinese-primary-school-halts-trial-of-device-that-monitors-pupils-brainwaves
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/chinese-primary-school-halts-trial-of-device-that-monitors-pupils-brainwaves
I wrote this a couple years ago under the pseudonym Ben Wilson, I was intending to produce a series of instructional blog posts written by Ben for the fictional company Influx, which sold a device that allowed you to control your dopamine triggers on your phone
The idea was that it would be an exploration of reward hacking and goal drift, as well as a commentary on (mostly my own, but also society's) fucked up priorities in life, and then eventually have Ben, their guinea pig, descend into madness with him one day accidentally setting his wordcount dopamine trigger too high and producing a Ulysses like ending of Autocomplete nonsense
Never wrote the second installment because I didn't really have an audience to share with at the time so I lost interest
https://medium.com/@InfluxUser/3-ways-to-properly-tune-your-drc-8892d135150b#.5cla3irry
The idea was that it would be an exploration of reward hacking and goal drift, as well as a commentary on (mostly my own, but also society's) fucked up priorities in life, and then eventually have Ben, their guinea pig, descend into madness with him one day accidentally setting his wordcount dopamine trigger too high and producing a Ulysses like ending of Autocomplete nonsense
Never wrote the second installment because I didn't really have an audience to share with at the time so I lost interest
https://medium.com/@InfluxUser/3-ways-to-properly-tune-your-drc-8892d135150b#.5cla3irry
third re reading of this Sci-fi masterpiece (Leviathan Wakes in English) by James S. A. Corey.
I was lucky enough to meet the authors at Lucca Comics 2019. A must read for all sci-fi lovers
I was lucky enough to meet the authors at Lucca Comics 2019. A must read for all sci-fi lovers
The year is 2034. You studied graphic design to create beauty, but now spend 9 hours every day removing extra fingers from ai generated images to add value to Microsoft's shareholders.
Humanity's travelling on the solar system like clutching to a sandworm.
We still don't know where we are going nor even how to effectively ride it.
We still don't know where we are going nor even how to effectively ride it.
Thread on the best depictions of alien life in print sci-fi
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/s/aUA3OofWlx
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/s/aUA3OofWlx
Anyone else really enjoy Scavengers Reign?
Bummed to find out the show is not getting pick up for another season.
Bummed to find out the show is not getting pick up for another season.
I'm so fucking excited for this. I still can't believe something as good as Andor S1 got snuck into the Star Wars canon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4wxt70aUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4wxt70aUM
found out today that neal stephenson (author of snow crash) was building in crypto
https://x.com/lamina1official?s=21
https://x.com/lamina1official?s=21
We're definitely gonna have people plugged to the machines 24/7 with no limit between human and machine. Ultimate cyborgs.
For some reason I imagine them as Dune's Spacing Guild.
For some reason I imagine them as Dune's Spacing Guild.
cross channel cast
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Spencer
@spencermarell.eth·15:30 28/01/2025
Excited to announce our new company, Incention!
We believe the future of Hollywood with the highest upside is one where AI agents and human creators work side-by-side to shape a universe of content and that the next billion dollar franchise will begin onchain. We're building a platform to realize this vision.
Our first project, Emergence, is a sci-fi universe created by renowned writer and producer David S. Goyer (Foundation, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Blade). Emergence is a creative sandbox designed to prove this model — come Create. Contribute. Vote. Engage. Earn.
More to come and lots to build! Big thank you to our incredibly talented team for many late nights getting to launch and to our partners
@a16zcrypto + @storyprotocol for the support.
We believe the future of Hollywood with the highest upside is one where AI agents and human creators work side-by-side to shape a universe of content and that the next billion dollar franchise will begin onchain. We're building a platform to realize this vision.
Our first project, Emergence, is a sci-fi universe created by renowned writer and producer David S. Goyer (Foundation, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Blade). Emergence is a creative sandbox designed to prove this model — come Create. Contribute. Vote. Engage. Earn.
More to come and lots to build! Big thank you to our incredibly talented team for many late nights getting to launch and to our partners
@a16zcrypto + @storyprotocol for the support.
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
ted chiang on retrocausality
https://images.shulcloud.com/1202/uploads/Documents/TheMerchantandtheAlchemistsGate.pdf
ted chiang on retrocausality
https://images.shulcloud.com/1202/uploads/Documents/TheMerchantandtheAlchemistsGate.pdf
Only 5 hours left sci-fi friends 🙂
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Garance
@garance·15:45 26/01/2025
Satellite views of exoplanets #1
Earth has become a precious bio sanctuary for the whole galaxy, allowing humanity to develop life on other planets.
https://rodeo.club/post/0x59aBbAb9Ce7d2C9098d1d065BcC10ee3B66B50dB/24
Earth has become a precious bio sanctuary for the whole galaxy, allowing humanity to develop life on other planets.
https://rodeo.club/post/0x59aBbAb9Ce7d2C9098d1d065BcC10ee3B66B50dB/24
Have any folks in the group read these? I've found going through author catalogues increasingly futile, so I'm working backwards by finding interesting ideas on which stories are built.
Niven's Ringworld is a case in point, but current vibe is Eyeball planets.
Niven's Ringworld is a case in point, but current vibe is Eyeball planets.
pantheon is one of the best scifi series I've ever seen.
gets deep into simulation theory, mind upload, and bunch of other stuff. even has crypto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series)
gets deep into simulation theory, mind upload, and bunch of other stuff. even has crypto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series)
Looks like an interesting game to check out with the absolute dearth of time at my disposal
https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/s/u0HvQqC0pE
https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/s/u0HvQqC0pE
I wasn’t impressed by the 3 body problems. Should I give Dune a try?
In a post scarcity world, human heritage sites and historical cities (Rome, Beijing, New York...) will impose tourism quotas to prevent deterioration from an exponential increase in the number of global tourists and digital nomads.
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Catabolismo
@catabolismo·01:05 30/12/2024
I like this as the base scenario for AGI -rich get richer, if lucky the masses get ubi
But I like to imagine that human creativity finds its way, that we'll have newer, more sophisticated needs, that art, philosophy and science will flourish like never before.
But I like to imagine that human creativity finds its way, that we'll have newer, more sophisticated needs, that art, philosophy and science will flourish like never before.
Started reading A Memory Called Empire, and have to say I’m really enjoying the space-sleuthing that’s been happening the first quarter of the book.
Was lead to believe it’d be harder to get through, but it’s been a fantastic story (and page turner) so far!
Was lead to believe it’d be harder to get through, but it’s been a fantastic story (and page turner) so far!
Wrapped up the Broken Earth trilogy.
Really interesting plot and story line, but I’ve got to admit, the second was probably my favorite of the series.
Really interesting plot and story line, but I’ve got to admit, the second was probably my favorite of the series.
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.”
~ William Gibson
~ William Gibson
Do you think machines will ever gain conscience?? I don't know, I still think that is impossible
https://youtu.be/qjfaoe847qQ?si=3rjv3mW_GLmHk5Bg
https://youtu.be/qjfaoe847qQ?si=3rjv3mW_GLmHk5Bg
One of the best videos I've seen in recent times about how we perceive the future
https://youtu.be/IsBfPwQr2ng?si=fZFJZWyHuOuqtyL4
https://youtu.be/IsBfPwQr2ng?si=fZFJZWyHuOuqtyL4
"The return" is a brief Sci-Fi story in Paragraph, that takes place in the 25th century, where a new crewed mission come back to Earth, now an inhospitable place without humans.
I hope you like it, follow me for more! :)
https://paragraph.xyz/@thenosycat/thereturn?referrer=0xF17C1A8998DC369F8b2023785b91D923C62c71dA
I hope you like it, follow me for more! :)
https://paragraph.xyz/@thenosycat/thereturn?referrer=0xF17C1A8998DC369F8b2023785b91D923C62c71dA
Anyone here started Silo S2 yet?
Just finished qntm’s Ra. Holy shit. I don’t even know where to start. But it was damn good
Originally posted in /books but people here may appreciate it.
https://warpcast.com/fridgebuzz/0xed17c766
https://warpcast.com/fridgebuzz/0xed17c766
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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth·14:07 06/11/2024
Another SF-themed thread. It may be some people are looking for escapist distractions today.
I was asked once which were the best SF writers from a literary point of view. Conceding that “literary” is poorly defined, here—regardless—is my personal annotated list:
I was asked once which were the best SF writers from a literary point of view. Conceding that “literary” is poorly defined, here—regardless—is my personal annotated list:
strike sci-fi
is there any sci-fi economy that has compute as (prime) currency?
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na
@na·21:25 13/09/2024
guesstimate % of sci-fi economies having energy as prime currency?
guesstimate % of sci-fi economies having energy as prime currency?
