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Why are you repeating the points Egan already made as though they were novel? He says in his review the same things as you're saying. "Sometime in the next twe
by anatoly 17y ago
Why are you repeating the points Egan already made as though they were novel? He says in his review the same things as you're saying.
"Sometime in the next twenty years or so, the technology that enabled Avatar will become cheap enough to risk employing alongside a moderately intelligent script." - it's right there in the review.
It's frustrating when this happens:
Author: A, yet also B. You may think that C, but I'd argue that D makes that untenable.
Commenter: He said A, but clearly C.
Another commenter: Hmm, C you say? But what about D?
Another commenter: y'all are too swept up in your As and Cs and Ds, have you even stopped to consider B?
- cousin_it 17y agoDigression: I felt this comment of yours sounded much more natural than the Russian translation you posted on your blog, even though you're a native Russian speaker. And people still ask me why I prefer to make complex arguments in English!