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Prepare to see another spike on your personal site. I recently spent over two hours on there, and I must say, you have a lot of interesting articles on a magnit

Prepare to see another spike on your personal site. I recently spent over two hours on there, and I must say, you have a lot of interesting articles on a magnitude of topics, e.g., DNB and Spaced Repetition. I'm surprised you haven't wrote anything about Ghost in the Shell and Technology Singularity yet, since you seem to enjoy science fiction and technology as much as I do.

gwern 14y ago
> I'm surprised you haven't wrote anything about Ghost in the Shell It's not because I haven't seen them - I've seen all the GitS, basically. (I'm also a Kanno fan, so I recognized your username instantly.) It's more that I have nothing in particular to say about them. They're not very deep SF, nor is the feel of the future particularly unusual cyberpunk; they're just done really well. I've read discussions and interviews with Mamoru Oshii (and transcribed them) for my Evangelion research, and, well, he's the kind of pretentious loldeep guy I strive not to be. > and Technology Singularity yet Here again, I lack any particular angle or insight. I've written on closely related topics, though, see http://www.gwern.net/tags/transhumanism http://www.gwern.net/tags/transhumanism
- cantbecool 14y ago
  People like you make me believe in the world isn't just a vast waste of space. You make me happy, since a lot of the time I feel like a cat on mars. I definitely can see where Mamoru Oshii can rub people the wrong way. (You made me laugh with the loldeep line. I thought that was exclusively reserved for Evangelion?) I probably enjoy GITS series to a fault because it was the initial science fiction film I viewed as a child.(Sci-fi Channel 1996 or 1997 around midnight) I have to make additional time throughout my work week to scour your repository. You'll probably be able to drill down the town I live in by Google Analytics by the end of the week.
  - gwern 14y ago
    > You made me laugh with the loldeep line. I thought that was exclusively reserved for Evangelion? Sure, but Evangelion is interesting because it's a detective hunt for sources and references to put together the case and explain what it is actually about. Oshii... is Oshii. Read something like http://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2003-oshii-izubuchi http://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2003-oshii-izubuchi if you don't believe me.

gwern 14y ago

> I'm surprised you haven't wrote anything about Ghost in the Shell It's not because I haven't seen them - I've seen all the GitS, basically. (I'm also a Kanno fan, so I recognized your username instantly.) It's more that I have nothing in particular to say about them. They're not very deep SF, nor is the feel of the future particularly unusual cyberpunk; they're just done really well. I've read discussions and interviews with Mamoru Oshii (and transcribed them) for my Evangelion research, and, well, he's the kind of pretentious loldeep guy I strive not to be. > and Technology Singularity yet Here again, I lack any particular angle or insight. I've written on closely related topics, though, see http://www.gwern.net/tags/transhumanism http://www.gwern.net/tags/transhumanism

cantbecool 14y ago
People like you make me believe in the world isn't just a vast waste of space. You make me happy, since a lot of the time I feel like a cat on mars. I definitely can see where Mamoru Oshii can rub people the wrong way. (You made me laugh with the loldeep line. I thought that was exclusively reserved for Evangelion?) I probably enjoy GITS series to a fault because it was the initial science fiction film I viewed as a child.(Sci-fi Channel 1996 or 1997 around midnight) I have to make additional time throughout my work week to scour your repository. You'll probably be able to drill down the town I live in by Google Analytics by the end of the week.
- gwern 14y ago
  > You made me laugh with the loldeep line. I thought that was exclusively reserved for Evangelion? Sure, but Evangelion is interesting because it's a detective hunt for sources and references to put together the case and explain what it is actually about. Oshii... is Oshii. Read something like http://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2003-oshii-izubuchi http://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2003-oshii-izubuchi if you don't believe me.