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What about allegories and thought experiments? Two examples on the top of my head: 1. The strange cave of Ali Baba (or how to explain Zero-Knowledge protocols
by jobigoud 10y ago
What about allegories and thought experiments?
Two examples on the top of my head:
1. The strange cave of Ali Baba (or how to explain Zero-Knowledge protocols to your children) - Jean-Jacques Quisquater - Advances in Cryptology - 1990.
2. The fable of the Tyrant Dragon - Nick Bostrom - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2005¹.
This is a work of fiction designed to make a statement about the stance of society towards fighting aging.
¹ http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mkowalcz/628.pdf http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mkowalcz/628.pdf
² http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
- Houshalter 10y agoThe categorization could go either way. Leave it up to the copyright office to decide. However given the context of an allegory in a larger work of nonfiction, or it's publication in a nonfiction scientific journal, I would lean towards saying it should be nonfiction.
- dreamsofdragons 10y agoThey're both non-fiction. Context, not just the title can be used in categorization.