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turns when you solve for a morally and sociologically coherent mass pseudo-resurrected civilization that can reflect on the self-reflectively transparent fact of its own existence, without going insane, you need arhatship-grade identity, personhood, mortality,
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void/oblivion/nibbana concepts and meditation-grade pedagogy, educational praxis, and culture to coexist with "tech-assisted enlightenment tools". Regarding the enumeration of all possible humans, there will be neurologically-/endocrinologically-grounded
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representation of genderbread-ness, transgenderism, neuro-atypicality, and paraphilia (possibly informed by cutting-edge research). There will be relatable, human-scale characters who impact events. 7/
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To answer a few questions: Am I manic right now? haha no. I'm doing an imperfectly calibrated self-promotion schtick. I'm low-key chilling in front of my laptop, just, like, ungrammatically typing this out, shitpoast-style, man (epicene usage). It's been a pretty chill day. 8/
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Did a bunch of chores, hung out with people close to me. I should have eaten more protein. Next up is protein, netflix, meditation, sleep, maybe. 9/
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But are you serious? Well, empirically, I'm making a list of examples of authors that have maybe packed this much into hopefully no more than three 150k-word novels. Some things might end up having to be pretty thin or implicit. 10/
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Also, I don't have adequate mastery of everything up there, so we'll see how this evolves. (Reply and recommend some books () to me like Permutation City () and Accelerando but lesser known. 11/
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Narrative writing is really fucking hard. That's not a question, and yeah. Cognitively-full-stack (-style), and it's one of those things that practically has no skill ceiling. And the learning curve is a series of step functions. 13/
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