Nathan Cook

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• Commented on CMAP: "Why can't I find audio editions of your books in the UK?"
  If you'll permit another Q, why can't the American publishers buy the rights to sell e-books in the UK from the British publishers?...
• Commented on The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
  There is a side-effect, of course: fly-tipping. Not if the RFIDs are write-once and set with a transaction identifier at check-out. Bitcoin is looking better and better. That and a hoodie. I can tolerate using a card alongside cash, but...
• Commented on Thoughtcrime
  Articles 4 and 5 of the United Nations Convention against Torture should be sufficient to convict an applicant for that position. Carrying out mutilations is part of the job description; mutilation is torture; attempting to commit torture or complicity in...
• Commented on Thoughtcrime
  Why is Judy Mallaber (born 1951) the designated representative of Young Labour?...
• Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
  @Charlie: Robin Hanson, not Henson....
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Correction: I may or may not have blown someone's cover. I was and am guessing....
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  This is my personal theory as to what the hell was going on: I would be happy if more than 50% is correct. Thematic Illuminatus! spoilers. The upshot is that the whole neoreaction / New Right Weltanschauung is a kind...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Consider how it could be interpreted vis-a-vis "The Handmaid's Tale" and get back to me? That's a problem in theory. I mean, in practice the Board only has to be more sensible about this sort of thing than the average...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  I've seen that suggestion, and it has my support: my ideal outcome is the creation of several sets of awards along the lines of the Prometheus (libertarian science fiction), with a negotiated truce on the big current awards. Each group...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Imagine a bylaw to the effect "No nomination for a Hugo Award shall be accepted that, in the judgment of the Nominations Board, is highly likely to reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  I typoed. I meant to write "that I find interesting". Oops. But yeah, not looking for a fight over this....
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Apologies. Frankly I haven't been very interested in the sort of weirdness you appear to be into for many years (and it was a juvenile interest to begin with). Nevertheless, I can still pick up on references and patterns of...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Nooo, it's a Lobby Lud reference, by way of Private Eye I suppose....
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  OK, I'm now almost sure I've read your comments on Metafilter in late 2013. Dark Enlightenment and all that. Can I claim my five pounds?...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  I would definitely take John Norman's course based on those reviews. Would probably give his books a miss, though....
• Commented on On the lack of cultural estrangement in SF
  Conditional on no tech-singularity or ELE, I would expect eugenics to return in a big way towards the middle of this century. When parents have the opportunity to give their children advantages like intelligence, height, conscientiousness and heterosexuality, many of...