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• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Delurking here: an excellent essay, Charlie. Good to see you have picked on the TESCREAL thing and cite Drs. Gebru and Torres and their work on the topic. If blog-commenters wish to dig deeper, a good recent article by Torres...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  San Diego and Los Angeles are east of Lake Tahoe Checking a map, I see that even Santa Barbara is (just) east of Tahoe. The factoid that I find weird is that Atlanta is west of Detroit....
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  why this is all simultaneously believed to be true In many cases this isn't; that is, the problems and contradictions are well-known, and people are trying to work it out. Much of what you just said comes under the...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  "Tidal tenors": perhaps they sing upon the deep, calling from each to each like T. S. Eliot's mermaids... As for black hole interiors, yes, I should think that for us outside observers, the knowledge of the interior of the event...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Arg, "Riemann tidal tenor" s/b "Riemann tidal tensor"...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Hello EC, I think you may have some mis-recollections about how GR works in the neighborhood of a black hole. The singularity of the Schwarzschild metric at the event horizon (r=R) is only apparent, not real. (In somewhat the same...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Sorry to be that guy, whitroth, but I think you must be thinking of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, which apparently did provoke noisy reactions in the audience, but (if wiki is to believed), it's not clear whether it was...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  eerie eldritch atonal music Not to downplay HPL's racism, but some of western classical "serious" music also went in for atonality in the early twentieth century -- cf. Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, etc. (Webern's music, especially, you could characterize as...
• Commented on Place your bets
  the traditional contractors: pandemics, famines, wars, and natural disasters You wouldn't think so, but googling turns up a number of companies with the name "The Four Horsemen LLC". Mostly involved with transport or construction, it would seem....
• Commented on Place your bets
  the traditional contractors: pandemics, famines, wars, and natural disasters You wouldn't think so, but googling turns up a number of companies with the name "Four Horseman LLC". Mostly involved with transport or construction, it would seem....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Not only a Klein bottle, but a Klein Bottle Opener ....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Back to the original topic, a tweet from the editor of Clarkesworld magazine: https://twitter.com/clarkesworld/status/1627711728245960704 Submissions are currently closed. It shouldn't be hard to guess why....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Asking it about quaternions (Returning to original topic, as it's 4 am and I had a disturbing thought...) Consider the combination of "improved chatGPT" + "Bogdanov affair" + "Mochizuki's (alleged) proof of the abc conjecture". There could be a...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  and none of them are funny, whatever anyone says There we must agree to disagree....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Yes, a little while ago I spent some time idly thinking about an alternate history in which the Louisiana Purchase fails due to opposition in the US Congress. A brief sketch (which is about as detailed as my thoughts about...
• Commented on WTF
  Well, to get back to the original topic, consider the following connected mess: 1) creepy dystopian billionaires (our favorite guys Musk and Thiel) 2) crypto (S. Bankman-Fried/C. Ellison) 3) "effective altruism" and "longtermism" (MacAskill, Bostrom, et al.) 4) Bay Area...
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  An especially blinkered attitude, given the extensive list of Chinese inventions during this alleged 2000-year-long period of stagnation. (A quick check on wiki gives "four great inventions": paper, printing, gunpowder, the compass. Plus a large number of others. This very...
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  Today, SK exports nuclear reactors and has a probe orbiting the Moon. And some of the currently most popular music on the planet. (I'm sure most of the commentariat here doesn't care for it (myself included), but an awful...
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  What I'm wondering is whether the cards can be Tropes That brings to mind an idea for writing prompts: go to tvtropes, where there is a "random trope" button on the page--press the button three times, read the main page...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  all systems with three or more bodies are essentially unstable Timescales in our Solar System for this are thought to be very long, numerical experiments typically indicating 20 billion years or more for various scenarios for major alteration of...
• Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
  regards "pop" music, so-called, that climbs to 99% [crap], for any period between 1900 & right now [...] Allow me to put in a word for the Great American Songbook -- popular and theater music from ca. 1915-1950 (for the...
• Commented on Bad news day
  Here's another one (with someone rhyming "uneasier" with "Zaporizhzhia"): https://twitter.com/BDStanley/status/1507436016113750016...
• Commented on Bad news day
  I'm one of those thousand-plus (got a copy a couple of weeks ago). About half-way through so far. Lots of ideas to chew over....
• Commented on Bad news day
  Feel free to get me a grant My (admittedly) *extremely* *uncharitable* reaction is "write your own damn grant proposal!" But that is the response of someone who has spent thirty-odd years in the satanic mills of the soft money...
• Commented on Bad news day
  With the caveat that I too have not yet read the article in question... if some theoretical genius comes up with a theory of everything [that explains everything but is not falsifiable by any means available to humans] To some...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares: spoiler time!
  In that case, you may be interested in a Klein Bottle Opener ....
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares: spoiler time!
  because he couldn't follow both paths simultaneously As Bertie Wooster said about Roderick Spode: "You can't be a dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other, surely. Not both."...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  Heteromeles may find it interesting to look up this old Howard Waldrop story about an alternate 19th-century Germany in which Richard Wagner was one of the martyred victims of the Revolution: A Better World's In Birth!...
• Commented on Omicron
  This behaviour does make referring to comments by comment number an exercise in guessing, though. There have been a number of occasions over the years when something like this has happened. I have found myself coming back to the conversation...
• Commented on Outage report
  What I dislike about Disqus is that it does not load all the comments at once (at least for me)-- on a Disqus site I have to keep hitting the "load more comments" tab over and over and over again...