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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Feb 2020

    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

    let's pause for a moment and recall that in Vernor Vinge's masterful "A Deepness in the Sky" the authoritarians are called "The Emergent", and there are a few subtle clues (a bad swear is "puss") that tell us that their society was forged by surviving / reacting to a plaguehttps://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1227657904838320128 …

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    5. This whole episode will offer good data on relative capacities of public health systems in different nations. Will also induce big increases in funding for such systems.
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    • jingle__belle zywiec William Eden Dr. 𝕭𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖉𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖞 𝕾𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖊 Karl K. Gallagher Wintermutt Zagig Yragerne Azathoth Liberation Front nzc
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      2. an unofficial Hugo book club blog‏ @Hugo_Book_Club 12 Feb 2020
        Replying to @MorlockP

        Vinge explicitly makes the connection between the mindrot plague and the creation of the fascist Emergent caste system.

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Feb 2020
        Replying to @Hugo_Book_Club

        yep ; he just didn't hammer the reader over the head with it, IIRC

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      1. Skin that smokewagon!‏ @heatpacker 12 Feb 2020
        Replying to @MorlockP

        I have read A Fire Upon the Deep. Looks as if I need to add another one of Vinge’s books to my reading list.

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      2. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 12 Feb 2020
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        Wuhan Flu will turn out to be a nothingburger (more or less - thousands of deaths is still a big deal if one of them was you). But since nothing that has ever gotten this much publicity is ever allowed to be a nothingburger, it will forever be remembered as a catastrophe.

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      3. random_scrub‏ @random_scrub 12 Feb 2020
        Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP

        A) so, basically like SARS? B) I pray you’re right and we dodge a pandemic

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      1. Challenger‏ @PulseAwakening 13 Feb 2020
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        Acts of Caine series by Matthew Stover iirc has a similar explanation as to why the world is the way it is, with the fun implication that it is by design

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