metachromatic

metachromatic

  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    Charles Stross opined: The UK has a safety net: about 50% of municipal funding comes from central government, so even if a city suffers an economic implosion, this doesn't totally nuke its ability to fund infrastructure and keep basic services...
  • Commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
    The whole idea is so stupid in so many ways that is practically violates the Pauli Exclusion Principle for ridiculousness. 's Absurdity #1: Secret service asks for a hard AI able to parse human language with human-level subtlety, which, if...
  • Commented on The myth of heroism
    Your heresy against the Lightning Gods is not appreciated, unbeliever. They will smite you. Methinks you've missed the economic drivers in superhero fiction, Charlie. More likely that superhero fiction reappeared in the 1920s and 1930s because that was when economic...
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    Charlie claimed: I can't go out and hire twenty people off the street and install them in a cubicle farm extruding Charlie Stross branded fiction product. (I can't even hire twenty SF novelists and train them to do that. Our...
  • Commented on "The next big thing"
    "Production is slower than changes in demand" for material that isn't hot right that moment or not written by a Big Name. Book publishers can hit warpspeed and get a book into print in under four weeks if it's just...
  • Commented on Commercial announcement
    It's quite remarkable that customers are getting rewritten books essentially true to the original concept of the trilogy. This qualifies as a sort of "director's cut" version of these books. Suggests some exciting new possibilities for e-books. Perhaps other authors...
  • Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
    @418 remarks: Why do you feel the need to deflect to "Obama is just as bad" and make false claims about Bitcoin's tendency to deflation? This deserves a serious discussion, as it seems to me (just speaking for myself) that...
  • Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
    Like most sensible folks, I'm in general agreement with Charlie's sentiments here. To wit, the point that Bruce Sterling made long ago to the effect that most of the supposedly wonderful glibertarian anarcho-syndicalist anonymity tech developments tend to wind up...
  • Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
    A typically rationalistic explanation, and as usual well thought out. The eldritch horrors at the core of Lovecraft's dread seem to arise from a place different from the engineering-type changes of scale that Charles remarks upon, however. Personally I'd opt...
  • Commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
    Three groups of humans lack a theory of mind: economists, sociopaths, and Republicans. All three are likely to become extinct for obvious reasons....
Subscribe to feed Recent Actions from metachromatic

Following

Not following anyone

Specials

Merchandise

About This Page

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Propaganda