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I read this novel and didn't really care for it much. I thought the idea of completing massive projects with the fractional attention of tens of thousands of pe
by 100k 4y ago
I read this novel and didn't really care for it much. I thought the idea of completing massive projects with the fractional attention of tens of thousands of people was hard to take. Coordination costs and context switching are a large overhead for that type of thing, and the novel doesn't address that at all.
- m463 4y agoI think some of these novels have a sort of literary "uncanny valley". By this I mean, if the story is unimaginable, it seems like a caricature or over-the-top plot and you just sort of suspend disgloss over it. But if it's uncomfortably imaginable, it gets creepy. I remember reading this story a long time ago (seems to have been 1997): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html and it was fiction to me. but later reading it, it's a little disturbing.