so, peter watts is this very interesting SF author, he wrote blindsight which occupies a special place in my heart because of its sheer fucking weirdness (in a good way, would recommend)
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I'm not sure if I've ever *just* tried asking it for ideas but if I'm e.g. writing an essay over multiple days then I often notice my mind going "hey you could [random thing X you just encountered] as an example in your essay" on a regular basis during that time
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I did for a while have an exercise where I went on walks and then tried to come up with at least one novel interpretation for some ordinary object I saw. Was fun.
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Also did I tell you about the time I walked up to Peter Watts in a science fiction convention, handed him one of my papers, found out that he'd already read it, and then later he cited it in his sequel to Blindsight and also named a starship after me rifters.com/echopraxia/sot
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ha that's awesome! and wow i really like the style of this post, he seems like a fun guy to grab a beer with
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