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• Commented on Chicon 8 schedule
  I'm not really one for travel, so I'm wondering if these panels might be posted on Youtube eventually, since some of them sound pretty interesting....
• Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
  I think in Timeline 3 rampant global warming has made much of Central America unfeasible to inhabit unless you can afford constant AC....
• Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
  Overall, I really liked the book, but I did miss the absence of an epilogue to give the characters some closer. In particular, I'd been hoping for a British/French reaction perspective to Liz's speech (and the flyby)....
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  Well, a bit of good news there is that the lines for ivermectin poisoning seem to have been heavily exaggerated: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-play-in-three...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  Why have it be adjacent to time line 2? If it's an empty timeline adjacent to 3 instead, that cuts down on the number of transitions needed as well as being safer....
• Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
  Also, IMO, any sci-fi work with psionics is already treading on the edge of fantasy. I personally don't mind mixing them, so long as the rules are consistent....
• Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
  How do people feel about "Clarke's Third Law" magic, where there is some unknown technology underpinning the magical effects, but people don't understand it on that level, only the more direct cause and effect? I've read a few enjoyable works...
• Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
  It depends on whether the ordinary citizens are immediately crushed. If not, it escalates into a high thriller....
• Commented on Creative writing challenge!
  It had seemed like a good side gig at first. Just a tertiary bonus after he hacked one of the companies handling telecommunications encryption software, slipped in a little backdoor to occasionally piggyback a differently-encrypted version disguised as noise, then...
• Commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
  This also works for neutral gas molecules (which behave like alpha particles at this sort of velocity). What it doesn't help with: anything much bigger than a sand grain — a one gram lump of ice packs about the same...
• Commented on Random excuses
  ... snowballed like a Katamari?...
• Commented on We get mail (contd.)
  Ah, but since it take a small amount of energy to instantiate a consciousness, the probability that he is telling the truth goes down as the number of consciousnesses that he claims he will instantiate goes up. So, depending on...
• Commented on We get mail (contd.)
  So, as someone who actually is a believer (Catholic btw, and no, I do not support the Crusades, or child abuse, etc.) I thought I'd weigh in. In terms of why an omniscient, omnipotent deity might be interested in human...
• Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
  This might be pushing the bounds of what is considered "Space Opera" but... Humans have never considered applying all the amazing technologies they've discovered to self-augmentation. Un-augmented humans remain competitive or superior to AIs in at least some areas. If...
• Commented on Interstitial note
  For some reason, this post made me think at first that you were playing Planetary Annihilation (http://www.uberent.com/pa/). That game certainly has no shortage of planet-smashing and nukes....
• Commented on Can We Merge Minds and Machines?
  One thing to consider about the public reaction to these technologies: in the background of your Sci-Fi books, the anti-augmentation attitudes were fueled in part by several major incidents where the technology was used to terrifying effect. It seems that...