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2015 Apr 18
2015 Apr 18
Diaspora by Greg Egan
This is the second book by Greg Egan that I’ve read. Just like Quarantine before it, I’ve read it without knowing what I were getting into. I’ve picked it up because I wanted to read sci-fi, and a lot of people on the ‘net recommended this one as a prime example of hard science fiction. Now I see why. The plot of the book is fairly simple – people are trying not to die. But it mostly serves as a framework that holds a plethora of ideas, explorations and philosophical musings; so many, in fact,...
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2015 Mar 24
2015 Mar 24
Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
We all make mistakes – it’s whether we learn from them that makes all the difference. But how exactly does one go about doing that? What kind of mistakes do we make? And what to do when our own minds don’t work the way we think they do? Every one of us is biased – our patterns of thought gravitate in certain directions without us ever knowing. And we can’t fix something if we don’t even suspect it exists.So how do we find these deficiencies? How do we compensate for them? These, along with ma...
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2012 Oct 04
2012 Oct 04
Death Has Deep Roots
The “who’s done it” style of detective literature surely needs no introduction. Ever since I was a child, I’ve loved Agatha Christie and the local Labyrinth and Green Library editions, supplying me with all the high-quality detective fiction I could wish for. So when I bought Michael Gilbert’sDeath Has Deep Roots (*Hlboké korene smrti *in Slovak) from the local library, I thought I was in for a standard treat. Turns out I was wrong. My beautiful, tattered Hlboké korene smrti (Death Has Deep...
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2012 Sep 16
2012 Sep 16
How to have a great evening
1. Prepare a hot beverage, if you’re so inclined. 2. Dim your lights 3. Play some fitting music (channel Doomed [http://somafm.com/play/doomed]on soma.fm) 4. Read I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream [http://styrofoam.voidaudio.net/ihavenomouthandimustscream.pdf] When I found out that it is only 13 pages long, I decided to read it as soon as possible, and sent it to my Kindle. Then I went on to read this Saturday Crapshoot [http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/09/01/saturday-crapshoot-i-have-no...
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