(General method for dealing with people who announce they're super-concerned about abstract things that do not directly affect them -- hwhite genocide ed.):https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1011303772184809472 …
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Nope! Quite like Stephenson but not even caught up to the level of Reamde. Damn him and his low-internet use, high-productivity lifestyle!
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Reamde is terrible ignore it and burn any copies you own. Seveneves is good imo but he has not topped his career-best Anathem yet. anyway, so Moirans are a human descendant subspecies with insanely overactive epigenetics such that trauma triggers epigenetic reconfiguration.
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each life trauma will put a Moiran through what amounts to a highly compressed episode of puberty, where their body and mind are reshaped and strengthened in response. The Moiran cultural tradition is to number themselves according to how many epigenetic crises they've done.
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so 3 Dan would be recognized as fairly mature by 8 Claire would be a super-powered master.
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Oh snap he's done it again, taken the aspie "must rank everything" tendency and applied it to a messy area like emotional maturity! Sounds good! [Anathem is far and away my favorite of his, too -- that scene where Fraa Jaad shows alternate future paths is $$$$.]
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the scene where he one-shots the password panel lock and just shrugs like "what? infinite other selves tried all the passwords that didn't work. I tried that one that does."
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The NSA _HATES_ him.
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