I often pick up a book recommendation or other recommendation from here. I read Blindsight by Peter Watts after a comment recently, and it has really stuck wit

I often pick up a book recommendation or other recommendation from here. I read Blindsight by Peter Watts after a comment recently, and it has really stuck with me. It's a sci-fi book about contact with an interstellar intelligence. It's free online. https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm For me the real gems are usually just on-topic comment threads for topics I want to read about. It's incredible when a domain expert shows up to give us the nitty gritty, and it happens--all the time. There's also always this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079