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Diaspora [0] by Greg Egan. A fun dive into post-human civilization published in late ‘90s. Great read if you like hard sci-fi. Tao of Wu [1] by RZA. Because, p

Diaspora [0] by Greg Egan. A fun dive into post-human civilization published in late ‘90s. Great read if you like hard sci-fi. Tao of Wu [1] by RZA. Because, perspective. [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel) [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Wu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Wu

candiddevmike 3y ago
RE: Diaspora, you'll know pretty quickly if you like it or not. It's very hard sci-fi, the opening is quite rough from a technical standpoint, may make your brain hurt.
loxias 3y ago
Woo! Diaspora! The opening of that book is such a well put and apt description of... that, I've forced it on plenty of my friends. Schild's Ladder also fantastic (yet similar.. like 30 Rock and Kimmy Schmidt? Still fun, but kinda "i've seen this before"). I think Permutation City was overrated. I haven't read any of his other novels, have you? Iain M Banks (Excession), Greg Egan (Diaspora, Dark Integers), and Charles Stross (Accelerando) are like a drug I'm still chasing that first high... Recommendations welcome.
- prepend 3y ago
  > The opening of that book is such a well put and apt description of... that, I've forced it on plenty of my friends. I think the opening of that book stuck in my head as that is how digital beings and digital identity WILL BE DONE. It makes so much sense to me. Although oddly, I remembered it being cryptographically sound and describing a way for the individual to have secure private keys to prove they are them (even to themselves) but I can’t find it when I reread the intro. I thought it was some distributed secure escrow with the Polis but I have have dreamt it. Neal Stephenson’s “Fall; or, Dodge on Hell” goes into this a bit with the PURDAH but I think it’s more hand waving and tied to “the body has some unknowable thing that can be captured in a digital mind version.”
  - loxias 3y ago
    > Although oddly, I remembered it being cryptographically sound and describing a way for the individual to have secure private keys to prove they are them (even to themselves) but I can’t find it when I reread the intro. I thought it was some distributed secure escrow with the Polis but I have have dreamt it. I'm pretty sure I read something like this too. So either we both dreamt it, or we're both mixing from another science fiction story. :D

candiddevmike 3y ago

RE: Diaspora, you'll know pretty quickly if you like it or not. It's very hard sci-fi, the opening is quite rough from a technical standpoint, may make your brain hurt.

loxias 3y ago

Woo! Diaspora! The opening of that book is such a well put and apt description of... that, I've forced it on plenty of my friends. Schild's Ladder also fantastic (yet similar.. like 30 Rock and Kimmy Schmidt? Still fun, but kinda "i've seen this before"). I think Permutation City was overrated. I haven't read any of his other novels, have you? Iain M Banks (Excession), Greg Egan (Diaspora, Dark Integers), and Charles Stross (Accelerando) are like a drug I'm still chasing that first high... Recommendations welcome.

prepend 3y ago
> The opening of that book is such a well put and apt description of... that, I've forced it on plenty of my friends. I think the opening of that book stuck in my head as that is how digital beings and digital identity WILL BE DONE. It makes so much sense to me. Although oddly, I remembered it being cryptographically sound and describing a way for the individual to have secure private keys to prove they are them (even to themselves) but I can’t find it when I reread the intro. I thought it was some distributed secure escrow with the Polis but I have have dreamt it. Neal Stephenson’s “Fall; or, Dodge on Hell” goes into this a bit with the PURDAH but I think it’s more hand waving and tied to “the body has some unknowable thing that can be captured in a digital mind version.”
- loxias 3y ago
  > Although oddly, I remembered it being cryptographically sound and describing a way for the individual to have secure private keys to prove they are them (even to themselves) but I can’t find it when I reread the intro. I thought it was some distributed secure escrow with the Polis but I have have dreamt it. I'm pretty sure I read something like this too. So either we both dreamt it, or we're both mixing from another science fiction story. :D