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Now reading #StartideRising by #DavidBrin.
Only a couple of chapters into this 1980s novel, but I'm intrigued already. Humans have uplifted dolphins to equal intelligence with themselves and the focus is on a ship crewed and captained by dolphins, but with a handful of human crew.
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Happy Birthday, David Brin!
Zur Feier seines 75. Geburtstags ist hier nochmal ein Rückblick auf eine der allerersten 'sf-Lit"-Buchbesprechungen:
"Sternenflut" - immer noch ein sehr lesenswerter Roman des Science-Fiction-Altmeisters!
>> https://www.sf-lit.de/rezensionen/rezensionen-das-archiv/sternenflut/
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David Brin – The Dogma of Otherness (1986)
https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html
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David Brin – The Dogma of Otherness
https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html
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Today on my Substack newsletter Assorted Nonsense... A Certain Sheltie, a review of David Brin's third non-fiction book Vivid Tomorrow's, and the usual Assorted Nonsense.
The newsletter is free to subscribe, unlike certain other newsletters, which, um, aren't free to subscribe. Subscribe to? Do you need the "to?" What does the Chicaco Manual of Style say about that? Oh great, there goes the next two hours...
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Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79 - Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. (credit: Raul654)
O... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011838 #technologicalsingularity #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #sciencefiction #raykurzweil #singularity #vernervinge #davidbrin #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz #openai #sci-fi #tech #ai
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"The oligarchs are trying to destroy our Enlightenment experiment by destroying politics. Politics in the USA has been destroyed."
#DavidBrin, 2023
"Right and without the politics, you can't define the arenas in which the competition is happening. You can't create the rules sets..."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2023
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Forced revelation of information makes individual privilege more important (2014)
In practice, the forced revelation of information makes individual privilege and power more important. When everyone has to play with their cards on the table, so to speak, then people who feel like they can be themselves without consequence do so freely -- these generally being people with support groups of like-minded people, and who are neither economically nor physically vulnerable. People who are more vulnerable to consequences use concealment as a method of protection: it makes it possible to speak freely about controversial subjects, or even about any subjects, without fear of harassment.
-- Yonatan Zunger, chief architect of Google+
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858439
#RealNames #anonymity #pseudonymity #identity #power #PowerRelationships #YonatanZunger #GooglePlus #DavidBrin #TransparentSociety