so they mostly explain stuff but then the context gets stripped and you end up going to war with someone because of quantum mechanics
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Replying to @NoraReed
that's a good avenue of thinking yeah. what i'm saying is that, for example, the Torah is the source code for a god called "is/was/will be"
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snow crash is barely even distorting anything for story purposes, our neal knows some shit
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Replying to @chaosprime @NoraReed
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. He's got really bullshit evopsycho ideas and 90% of what he thinks he knows about linguistics is just wrong.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @NoraReed
yeah, the way the snow crash virus winds up working is, uh, heavily dramatized to say the least
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but he isn't wrong that the human capacity for language is first and foremost an enormous security vulnerability
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Replying to @chaosprime @NoraReed
I mean, if you want a story about "language as a security vulnerability" Miéville did it way better. But he doesn't think it's the TRUTH.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @NoraReed
which Miéville? i promise i'm going to get the rest of the way through IRON COUNCIL, pinky swear
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Replying to @chaosprime @NoraReed
Embassytown is the one I'm talking about.
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rad, thanks, i am delighted at the prospect of seeing what China has to say on the topic
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Replying to @chaosprime @NoraReed
It is a bizarre little novel. He's a really hit-or-miss author for me but i loved Embassytown.
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