Enjoyed Flowers for Algernon. Wrote some quick thoughts on interpretations that stood out: - Expecting humility - Emotional maturity needing to scale with IQ - Personal growth (are others rooting for us?) - Sisyphean self-improvement vs transhumanismhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2582725685 …
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Have you read Understand by Ted Chiang? Takes a different approach but has some of the same thematic elements
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Highly highly recommend. Stories of your Life and Others (which includes Understand) is a great place to start
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I’m sure I’ll be evangelizing it by next year and kicking myself for not reading it earlier lol
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Ditto this; the fact that they’re so short makes the experience even more striking!
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