About 75% through Diamond Age (1995), it strikes me that Neal Stephenson was the original crypto-post-NRx-er.
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so you're not going to read seveneves/ cryptonomicon/anathem? even funnier but more erratic/illegible politics (incl nrxish stuff tho)
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read Cryptomomicon...I lose interest when surprisal level falls below minimum
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the guy is too damn exhausting. He really needs to replace every 50 page context description with an illustration
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Stephenson really can't do endings, but even by his standards The Diamond Age is very odd.



