#anathem — Public Fediverse posts
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Can't stop thinking about the world building exercise/setup in Stephenson's Anathem where the "avout" (aka intelligentsia) were forced to live in gated monastic communities isolated to varying degrees (and by rank[1]) from secular society. This setup was decided on for a number of self-serving reasons (by the avout), but also largely imposed on them due to a long history where technology & academic pursuits led to several catastrophic events, incl. periodic civilizational collapses triggered by knowledge/research either being weaponized, irresponsibly commercialized and/or unleashed at a rate which society simply couldn't culturally/ethically/politically handle...
He (Stephenson) termed these events "Praxic crises" to emphasize that these kinds of disaster happen when purely theoretical insight is employed as real-world technology (praxis) without any restraint. In reality, there obviously isn't such a clear-cut separation between "purely theoretical knowledge" and its applications (POSIWID etc.) and that also forms part of the basis of this book's premise... I think we also very well know all the causes for such crises: From extreme short-term incentives (profit, war, perceived control/power), lack of ethical/philosophical grounding among decision makers (amplified by political power hierarchies), first-to-market pressures vs. deep understanding & balancing of impacts, but also severe lack of institutional regulation & memory (partially due to cyclic collapse and social amnesia)...
Food for thought...
[1] Monastic rank influenced degree of isolation: Unarians were allowed a few days outside each year, Decenarians every 10 years, Centenarians every 100 years, Millenarians only opened every 1000 years...
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@dgar #SciFi the author #NealStephenson introduces someone's #steelyard test for the same purpose. In another of the hypothetical #ManyWorlds
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@dgar #SciFi the author #NealStephenson introduces someone's #steelyard test for the same purpose. In another of the hypothetical #ManyWorlds
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@dgar #SciFi the author #NealStephenson introduces someone's #steelyard test for the same purpose. In another of the hypothetical #ManyWorlds
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@dgar #SciFi the author #NealStephenson introduces someone's #steelyard test for the same purpose. In another of the hypothetical #ManyWorlds
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@dgar #SciFi the author #NealStephenson introduces someone's #steelyard test for the same purpose. In another of the hypothetical #ManyWorlds
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Anathem by Neil Stephenson, a Sci-Fi masterpiece is on sale on Audible for 6$ until the end of March.
It was recently rereviewed for the SFBRP Must-Read List.
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/2412
(Note that since the book was published in 2008, this is a spoiler rich episode).
For a spoiler conscious discussion you can go back to Luke's 2009 review of Anathem:
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/127
#SFBRP #NeilStephenson #anathem #ScienceFiction #BookSale #audible #podcast
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Anathem by Neil Stephenson, a Sci-Fi masterpiece is on sale on Audible for 6$ until the end of March.
It was recently rereviewed for the SFBRP Must-Read List.
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/2412
(Note that since the book was published in 2008, this is a spoiler rich episode).
For a spoiler conscious discussion you can go back to Luke's 2009 review of Anathem:
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/127
#SFBRP #NeilStephenson #anathem #ScienceFiction #BookSale #audible #podcast
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Anathem by Neil Stephenson, a Sci-Fi masterpiece is on sale on Audible for 6$ until the end of March.
It was recently rereviewed for the SFBRP Must-Read List.
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/2412
(Note that since the book was published in 2008, this is a spoiler rich episode).
For a spoiler conscious discussion you can go back to Luke's 2009 review of Anathem:
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/127
#SFBRP #NeilStephenson #anathem #ScienceFiction #BookSale #audible #podcast
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Anathem by Neil Stephenson, a Sci-Fi masterpiece is on sale on Audible for 6$ until the end of March.
It was recently rereviewed for the SFBRP Must-Read List.
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/2412
(Note that since the book was published in 2008, this is a spoiler rich episode).
For a spoiler conscious discussion you can go back to Luke's 2009 review of Anathem:
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/127
#SFBRP #NeilStephenson #anathem #ScienceFiction #BookSale #audible #podcast
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Anathem by Neil Stephenson, a Sci-Fi masterpiece is on sale on Audible for 6$ until the end of March.
It was recently rereviewed for the SFBRP Must-Read List.
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/2412
(Note that since the book was published in 2008, this is a spoiler rich episode).
For a spoiler conscious discussion you can go back to Luke's 2009 review of Anathem:
https://www.sfbrp.com/archives/127
#SFBRP #NeilStephenson #anathem #ScienceFiction #BookSale #audible #podcast
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@cathill one of our local stars tends to use a wide angle.
A larger #sensor will show less #noise on long exposures.
In #SciFi a fisheye telescope sits atop the math in #Anathem by #NealStephenson recording 180° of the sky all round. #Clepsythra's Eye. -
@AkaSci
#NealStephenson the #SciFi author makes some use of them in his large interesting novel #AnathemWhich also has some echoes of what, perhaps, scientists might consider around this period of Administration of the USA.
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@AkaSci
#NealStephenson the #SciFi author makes some use of them in his large interesting novel #AnathemWhich also has some echoes of what, perhaps, scientists might consider around this period of Administration of the USA.
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@AkaSci
#NealStephenson the #SciFi author makes some use of them in his large interesting novel #AnathemWhich also has some echoes of what, perhaps, scientists might consider around this period of Administration of the USA.
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@AkaSci
#NealStephenson the #SciFi author makes some use of them in his large interesting novel #AnathemWhich also has some echoes of what, perhaps, scientists might consider around this period of Administration of the USA.
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@cstross @stevenaleach
Universities hang around. Building a department which can sustain an area of study through many generations of graduate students, PhDs and professorships wouldn't be trivial.#Anathem doesn't seem ridiculous on that.
The Long Range Foundation is even better named for this than the Long Now, albeit the latter is real.
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@jaztrophysicist
Neal Stephenson, in his large #SciFi novel #Anathem introduces the Lorites, a mathic community who specialise in knowing, and telling people, if something had been thought about and out previously.On the one hand they can save a lot of work...
Good book.
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@glynmoody If we are heading for a Rampant Botnet Ecology then let it be Orphaned as early as possible.
#Anathem #ROBE #SciFi #SF -
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I also started reading "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson, having really enjoyed both “Snow Crash" and “Seveneves”.
The story starts first about 20% into the book, and the world building is heavy in the first fifth. It's not a book I'd recommend to someone who's just starting with sci-fi, but I enjoyed trusting the process that I'd understand all the new terms eventually.
If it keeps being this good, Stephenson is 3 for 3 in my book.
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@KathyReid So Sandi Toksvig, Alan Garber, and Fabiola Gianotti will presumably be the founders of the First Mathic Age after Putin, Trump, Xi Jinping, Netanyahu and Starmer collectively pull the rug out from under civilization.
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The Steelyard vs the Razor
http://waitingforabettertitle.blogspot.com/2009/11/saunt-gardan-steelyard.html
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Just finished season 2 of AMC’s #Pantheon animated series and it’s some of the beat sci-fi I’ve seen in years if not decades. Reminds me of reading #Anathem by Stephenson the first time, where he’s like, “Fuck you, keep up. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover!” (Also traces of Sterling and Gibson in it too.)
SO GOOD!
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@fixatedpersonsunit @OutOnTheMoors
A rampant orphan botnet ecology (ROBE) as from #NealStephenson 's SF novel #Anathem . It is a rather good book. -
@Andres4NY Reminds me of the #Anathem term “bulshytt”: “a … term denoting speech … that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.”
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#Anathem I'm getting the feel for what The Terrrible Events were.
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Ho pre-ordinato l'ultimo libro di #NealStephenson (versione italiana) #TerminationShock
Dello stesso autore ho adorato alcuni libri, ma alcuni li ho trovati un po' mal riusciti. Molto belli #Cryptonomicon e il #Ciclobarocco ; simpatico #SnowCrash (IMHO sopravvalutato dalla critica) e #Zodiac, tra l'altro come l'ultimo è un eco-thriller, ma si vede che è un'opera giovanile.
Il suo migliore IMHO è #Anathem 👍Vediamo come andrà. Tengo le aspettative basse, così magari ci rimango meno male
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Ho pre-ordinato l'ultimo libro di #NealStephenson (versione italiana) #TerminationShock
Dello stesso autore ho adorato alcuni libri, ma alcuni li ho trovati un po' mal riusciti. Molto belli #Cryptonomicon e il #Ciclobarocco ; simpatico #SnowCrash (IMHO sopravvalutato dalla critica) e #Zodiac, tra l'altro come l'ultimo è un eco-thriller, ma si vede che è un'opera giovanile.
Il suo migliore IMHO è #Anathem 👍Vediamo come andrà. Tengo le aspettative basse, così magari ci rimango meno male
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@vmexell Oh, and on #Anathem, did you see this? The Teglon could have just been a single tile design.
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@daltonator @root2702 I just got through a re-read, actually. A lot of fun and got me through quite a few days where the toddler wasn’t sleeping much. :) #Anathem
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Trying, but failing, to knock myself out by reading Neal Stephenson's #Anathem
While it's got some good ideas (Time Monks! Meme Hygiene!), it's awfully kludgy and slow. Especially compared to #SnowCrash or #Seveneves which are both dense, but move along at pace. -
I'd never looked into Penrose Tilings in this depth before, and they're far weirder than I thought. (See also the Teglon, #Anathem fans!) #Maths #PopMaths #Symmetry
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Time for more hashtags! I am currently #reading:
#Scholomance vol. 3 Golden Enclaves (ugh, I really don't like the way this is going)
#BeyondBlack (I love #HilaryMantel, but I missed this one somehow)
the #Godfather (will watch the movies again when I'm done)
the #ThreeBodyProblem (I feel like I've been reading this for years, I keep having to start over because I forget what's happened)
#KillingFloor (I will finish watching #Reacher on Amazon when I'm done)
re-reading: #Anathem
