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Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
"This is stumbling close to highly dubious ev. psych. territory, but I think it may originally have evolved as a survival strategy -- aversion to decaying food products/excrement/side-effects of illness can be a useful trait." The Just-So Story I learned...
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Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
"Of course he was a racist! But that's not fundamentally very interesting." I don't know how you can make sense of Lovecraft without racism. It's like sweeping all that "longing for a semi-legendary British countryside" stuff under the rug when...
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Commented on Tapeworm Logic
One of the more interesting elements of this idea is the potential "social science fiction" plot: tapeworms slowly realizing that their environment is not just alive, but sentient and interacting with an incredibly complicated external ecosystem. Science on Earth has...