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Livia J. Elliot's avatar

Congrats on the release of SUNWARD SKY! I can't wait to read it soon!

Project Getaway sounds like someone I'd love to read. My TBR is definitely too full, but I'll keep an eye on it because the reflections around technology, geopolitical borders, and industry dynamics seem quite interesting, actually.

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"When you think about it, every single major productive technology [...] has been a foreshortening of the distance, either physical or temporal, between humans and the tasks they want to accomplish."

The above is quite true. After all, we humans need interpersonal relationships and---perhaps unconsciously—that need has driven most of our discoveries, even those that are not related to technology itself.

One of the many problems with AI as it's being developed and used right now is how it exacerbates the post-truth in which we live. It'll reach a moment in which we won't be able to determine real from fiction, and it's terrifying.

An excellent essay!

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J Lin's avatar

In the US that game is called telephone

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