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stripey7 comments on Superintelligence fiction - "Understand", by Ted Chiang - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: stripey7 08 October 2013 02:03:53AM 4 points [-]

I'll have to reread before I can make a comment specific to this story. But I found the collection as a whole (Stories of Your Life and Others) incredibly stimulating. I don't think I've ever seen so many really original ideas between two covers.

Comment author: Bayeslisk 09 October 2013 07:17:18AM 0 points [-]

Man, the Babylon story and the Arab world story were both incredible. Excellent worldbuilding passing off complex ideas and making them Buffy-spoken in terms of understandability, with scattered crunchy genius bonuses.