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Bayeslisk comments on Superintelligence fiction - "Understand", by Ted Chiang - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: D_Alex 07 October 2013 03:03AM

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Comment author: Bayeslisk 07 October 2013 05:01:49AM 4 points [-]

I quite like Chiang myself. There is a quality to a few authors like him, Mieville, and Egan that I can't figure out what it is but really like. Possibly linguistics, good worldbuilding, and rarely having their characters be inexplicable idiots.