Warrigal comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 01 December 2009 05:55:11PM 6 points [-]

I wrote a short story with something of a transhumanism theme. People can read it here. Actionable feedback welcome; it's still subject to revision.

Note: The protagonist's name is "Key". Key, and one other character, receive Spivak pronouns, which can make either Key's name or eir pronouns look like some kind of typo or formatting error if you don't know it's coming. If this annoys enough people, I may change Key's name or switch to a different genderless pronoun system. I'm curious if anyone finds that they think of Key and the other Spivak character as having a particular gender in the story; I tried to write them neither, but may have failed (I made errors in the pronouns in the first draft, and they all went in one direction).

Comment author: [deleted] 02 December 2009 07:05:42AM 1 point [-]

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Comment author: gwern 11 December 2009 06:52:51PM 0 points [-]

Alicorn goes right past it probably because she's read a fair bit of cyronics literature herself and has seen the many suggestions (hence the librarian's invitation to think of 'a dozen solutions'), and it's not the major issue anyway.