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Commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
After a few beers and a couple of glasses of sangria, I don't really care if Charlie's definition of a zimboe doesn't quite match the original. He tells a great story, thereby proving, by his own definition, that he is...
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Was speaking to a trans friend recently about hormone therapy. Apparently he had counselling and advice about the emotional effects the testosterone would have: flatten out many emotions, but increase anger, with a dramatic tendency to respond to everything with...
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Commented on Who ordered *that*?
And I should mention the disturbing parallels between the #RacistVan and Australian advertising in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the like telling people not to come to Australia. There are some very disturbing images showing one of these billboards as a...
Commented on Who ordered *that*?
I find it fascinating, (and abhorrent) that over in Australia, we are introducing racist policies (shipping nom-white asylum seekers to PNG), when the main problem here is Brits overstaying visas....

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ARNOLD commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
" ... but they seem to not apply the same logic to people with abnormal emotions. " And what do you call, Abnormal as in ' .. Abnormal emotions ' pitiful Human? How does NORMAL emotion contribute to the Dominant Culture that States that Greed IS GOOD!! Will lack of Abnormal Emotion help MY Family Sept and Tribe thrive and grow to dominate the SEVAGRAM? If not then what use is it?...
ARNOLD commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
I don’t know about these ' Republicans ' of which you speak - which Republic is this? Ancient Roman ?US of American? - But " economists, sociopaths," seem to thrive and breed at a ferocious rate so their character traits, and the genetic endowment/cultural nutriment from which they spring must have some sort of survival value don’t you think?...
dirk.bruere commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
Yes, just like the peacock's feathers. Unfortunately it is a liability under changed circumstances ie when they meet the flying tigers....
scentofviolets commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
Hmmmm . . . would the Vile Offspring in Accelerando be zimboes? Zombies? Something else? I'm including the 'cat', of course :-)...
ilya187 commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
Perhaps because you don't tend to see people with Down's syndrome ending up as CEOs or presidential candidates... Or as tribal warlords. People are trying to find evolutionary advantage to sociopathy because it happens to be... well... evolutionarily advantageous. Sociopaths, or at least male sociopaths, do have a demonstrable breeding advantage in both modern and pre-modern societies. Whether it is heritable is an open question....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
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