as usual (https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1118710087348932609 …), I'm too dumb to properly appreciate the new @gregeganSF novel 1/7 #thebookofallskies
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early Egan (Quarantine/Permutation City/Distress) was accessible to mere philosophers, but much of later Egan (Incandescence/Orthogonal/Dichronauts) actually needs you to be a mathematician 2/7
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(related headcanon: the comps in "3-adica"/"Instantiation" are smarter than normal humans; Sagreda thinks more like Greg Egan than rando normies because averaging over contributors erases flaws in brain structure, similar to how
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This one shouldn't even be that difficult! It's "just" set in multiply-connected space—traversing some paths counter- or clockwise take you to a different Euclidean 3-space. Visualize it like a spiral staircase for convenience, but it's actually flat 4/7 http://gregegan.net/ALLSKIES/01/Gravity.html …
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I'm just—having trouble visualizing what the Hoops are? I'm pretty sure they're supposed to be part of the geometrical structure of space itself, and not, like, a large circle made of wood or something. I can't quite "load" this world in my head. Illustrations would help? 5/7
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The Overgap anarcho-communists made me start wishing again for a collaboration with
@robinhanson (https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1365534204075806720 …); Egan fans wouldn't accept "It just works" as the answer to an engineering question, but "People just help as needed" is similarly mysterious economics! 6/7Zack M. Davis added,
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Economics in the long run has a very scienc-y bent in that it's about emergent solutions to problems of scarcity. The problem is that there's a memetic virus that wants to obscure this simple reality so people have trouble understanding simple related concepts due to crimestop.
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