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On what the 'stop' is doing: my impression is that it's fundamentally arguing from a position of assumed shared values.
If someone were to split me off into two initially-identically-similar copies who then went our separate ways for a time, diverged thereby, but eventually returned to engage in some cooperative venture, and the other me suddenly stared at me intensely and told me to stop in the right sort of forceful tone, I would be likely to stop what I was doing. I share values with myself; if she tells me to stop, in a manner conveying urgency, and doesn't explain further, I assume that this is because there's a good reason for... (read 366 more words →)
Does the desktop audio player still exist? I'm failing to find it, now, and also failing to find any alternate download-method that's replaced it.
One question which this interview touches on a bit but doesn't address directly, which I find myself curious about: what were the core elements of the story which were The Point, which the rest of the story got built around? Which is to say: some parts of the story, like the SPHEW arc, were added as setup for later parts which needed to be there. But it doesn't make sense to write something for the sake of setting up something else, if the regress doesn't end with something you've outlined for reasons other than setting up something else. The terminal story-elements, so to speak, as opposed to instrumental ones. I'd be interested to know which elements of the story were, in the relevant sense, terminal.