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• Commented on Do my Laundry
  Modern words have deep roots. That's just how language always works....
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  Here's a trope: milsf Milsf, not to be confused with milfs, although these tropes are not mutually exclusive....
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  With your restrictive definition of fantasy, you would include most works usually classed as such as science fiction. I'm not talking about definitions of genre, but more of a vibe. It a subtle thing....
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  Actually, you can hang on to rationality, just with a set of natural laws that are entirely different from what we are accustomed to. No, the sci-fi mindset only requires that the secondary world has impartial and impersonal rules,...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  You're asking me to let go of rationality. Sorry, my brain doesn't want to do that! Might as well ask me to believe in God. Not in real life. But there are different modes of writing. Take mystery, for...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  Charlie, have you ever tried letting go of the sci-fi mindset while writing? By which I mean, the deeply ingrained knowledge/belief that deep down, everything in the universe is governed by impartial and impersonal rules. You can write fantasy with...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  Charlie, do you have any post-apocalyptic survival? It's en evergreen genre - Dies The Fire, Fallout, I Am Legend, Walking Dead, Last of Us... you don't have to put zombies in (mutants are required, however). Also, alternate history! I know...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Empowered by Adam Warren, a NSFW story about a superheroine with a very fickle supersuit, who lives in a fucked up kinda lovecraftian kinda apocalyptic version of the real world. It is being serialized in a webcomic format, and has...
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  That's more or less what I was proposing. Telepresense, but with the sensory and input/output passing through the human-to-crab AI translator. You can do it through VR, or with an actual robot....
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  A sufficiently powerful AI can solve the sex with aliens problem. Just like AI can translate languages, AI could take the VR representation of your body, and "translate" it for the alien, and vice versa. So you might have VR...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  The other way around - exons encode peptides, introns do not. Actually, it's more complicated, exons are the sequences that form mRNA after splicing of introns, and mRNA consists of the coding region (CDS) that actually encodes the protein, and...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  So you build your system out of the most stupid demons. Shouldn't these demons just be a part of the whole hell-dimension demon biosphere? Probably an important part? Imagine if some interdimensional aliens were to start exploiting Earth by stealing...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  So there are none? Why do you feel like engaging with a genre you don't like? Also, wait a minute, don't you have an entire highly successful series of books with magic as software? PS. Fixed exchange rate is more...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  Charlie, which works of High Fantasy do you genuinely like? And I mean works that takes the subgenre seriously, not parodies, deconstructions or subversions....
• Commented on Minor updates
  I am forever fond of the version of Prince Caspian where Nikabrik had successfully summoned back the White Witch. This leads to a civil war between the Pevensie Narnians and the Jadis Narnians, and the former find themselves allied to...
• Commented on Minor updates
  There's a fine line between deconstructing Narnia and becoming a "New Atheist". "God is a brain parasite" falls into the latter category....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Quantum of Nightmares
  Sigh. "Ideological infrastructure". "Self-propagating conceptual viruses". Such a typical nerdy CS ideas. Let's pretend everything is a program, and cool hackers can totally hack it, if they are cool enough. Cheat codes for human civilization! Fnord!...
• Commented on Place your bets
  (A lot of what's wrong with the world today can be laid at the feet of Oxford and Cambridge classics scholars who harboured an unhealthy hero worship for the Greek and Roman empires during the formative period for the...
• Commented on Place your bets
  NB: I do not expect anything recognizably human to survive into that epoch. Or even mammals. Probably not even members of kingdom animalia. As long as civilization survives and genetic engineering is a thing, species can be evolutionary "frozen"...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Yes. And Panpsychism. Can we combine the two? What if everything is conscious except human beings?...
• Commented on Place your bets
  And Judaism itself is a rewrite of older beliefs, done under king Josiah....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Question to everyone who says that ChatGPT doesn't know anything (which I tend to agree with). How do you know a human mind is not a bigger, fancier version of ChatGPT? ChatGPT simply does statistics with words? Well, all human...
• Commented on Place your bets
  There's an ever earlier batshit crazy crazy sequel, the Gnostic Scriptures. Sadly, it didn't catch on....
• Commented on Place your bets
  There are two kinds of people who think religions not confirming to the literal meanings of the scriptures is some kind of gotcha: Smart aleck atheist nerds. Fundamentalists. Group 1 is useless and annoying, Group 2 is always worse than...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Compare and contrast: ChatGPT, which cost millions of dollars and thousands of man-years to develop (including all the research that led to it), is outputting boring but plausible text. Everybody is losing their shit. Dwarf Fortress, which is made by...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  A much better metaphor is that Mastodon is to Twitter as old-time email was to Gmail (which has gradually subsumed almost all other services and still presents external SMTP and IMAP APIs but is basically its own thing these...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  @Charlie, So, how long did it take you to realize that Mastodon instances are no different than regular old-time forums, and that no amount of tiny forums can replace one big forum with a single moderation policy? Or are you...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  Nope. What you are describing is Arianism, condemned as heresy by the Council of Chalcedon back in 451 AD. Who are you, a Visigoth? In Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, the Son is co-eternal with the Father. The Son, the Father...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  Charlie, I'm an atheist, but in most forms of Christianity Jesus is God. Like, it's in the name of the religion. Worshiping Christ is what Christians do. It would be an opposite of idolatry....
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  Update: found it. https://twitter.com/FrogCroakley/status/1215239312104742912...