Rationality Quotes November 2012

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Great book, it's freely available here, in plain html.

Can you recommend similar novels?

It's risky, getting involved. Too many confounds. Every tool in the shed goes dull and rusty the moment you get entangled with the system you're observing. Still serviceable in a pinch, though.

Can you recommend similar novels?

How about R. Scott Bakker's Disciple of the Dog and Neuropath? YMMV on his Second Apocalypse books.

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Unfortunately, I can’t: this kind of (strangely refreshing) cynicism is, in my limited experience, unique to Peter Watts, and the use of interesting “starfish aliens” seems to be quite rare. There are, however, other short stories (not novels) of Peter Watts that have a somewhat similar mood , such as Ambassador, but you probably are already aware of them.

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