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My hard sci-fi book dovetails into AGI, economics, agrotech, surveillance states, and a vision of the future that explores a fair number of novel ideas. Lookin

My hard sci-fi book dovetails into AGI, economics, agrotech, surveillance states, and a vision of the future that explores a fair number of novel ideas. Looking for beta readers: username @ gmail.com

BubbleRings 1y ago
Username@Gmail.com bounced. I’ll be a beta reader.
- aspenmayer 1y ago
  I think they meant for you to replace the word username with their username in its place.
  - plemer 1y ago
    Theirusernameinitsppace@gmail.com bounced too.
    - aspenmayer 1y ago
      Well you misspelled place, but that word likely isn’t present in their email, so I apologize for the instructions being unclear. I don’t know their email definitively, so I guess you’re on your own, as I don’t think that the issue would be resolved by rephrasing the instructions, but I’m willing to try if you think it would help you.
      - plemer 1y ago
        Sorry - I was making a joke that I literally was typing in those words, not replacing them with my own info. Apparently that didn’t land at all, maybe should’ve used quotes.
        aspenmayer 1y ago
        I see what you were going for. It was an attempt. The delivery could use some work. The joke itself may need a complete rewrite to be a different joke, but it might be salvageable. When you hit rock bottom, know when to stop digging, and when to get a shovel. For my part, I’ll admit that the setup wasn’t very good. I was trying to be the straight man foil to your bit to the degree I felt your comment permitted, as I’m not “in on the joke,” as it were, at least I wasn’t in on it then. I think HN is a hard venue to do comedy well, as you have to read the room over longer than a single comment thread or post. Your comments were already pretty deadpan and dry, so I think many couldn’t even see it as distinctly humorous rather than snarky or sarcastic or even unfunny if they viewed it as against HN guidelines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_man
Fraterkes 1y ago
Can you list any of the novel ideas in your comment?
- thangalin 1y ago
  Sure! * Review of wealth sources with respect to food * Socioeconomic ramifications of a free food distribution system * Implications of artificial wombs, longevity pills, and nefarious people * Benefits of personal, real-time DNA analysis devices * Organic, bioluminescing street lamp replacements with 500+ year lifetimes (a bathtub curve extension analog) * Robotaxi services using machine learning to optimize owner income * How optimal prisoner's dilemma strategies resolve Hume's guillotine * Strategies for evading capture in a surveillance state * What plans an AGI would give itself (that don't involve conquering humanity) * Ways an AGI could completely disable our emergency call centers * Rationale behind a Galactic race towards harnessing black hole energy and more.

My hard sci-fi book dovetails into AGI, economics, agrotech, surveillance states, and a vision of the future that explores a fair number of novel ideas. Looking for beta readers: username @ gmail.com

BubbleRings 1y ago

Username@Gmail.com bounced. I’ll be a beta reader.

aspenmayer 1y ago
I think they meant for you to replace the word username with their username in its place.
- plemer 1y ago
  Theirusernameinitsppace@gmail.com bounced too.
  - aspenmayer 1y ago
    Well you misspelled place, but that word likely isn’t present in their email, so I apologize for the instructions being unclear. I don’t know their email definitively, so I guess you’re on your own, as I don’t think that the issue would be resolved by rephrasing the instructions, but I’m willing to try if you think it would help you.
    - plemer 1y ago
      Sorry - I was making a joke that I literally was typing in those words, not replacing them with my own info. Apparently that didn’t land at all, maybe should’ve used quotes.
      - aspenmayer 1y ago
        I see what you were going for. It was an attempt. The delivery could use some work. The joke itself may need a complete rewrite to be a different joke, but it might be salvageable. When you hit rock bottom, know when to stop digging, and when to get a shovel. For my part, I’ll admit that the setup wasn’t very good. I was trying to be the straight man foil to your bit to the degree I felt your comment permitted, as I’m not “in on the joke,” as it were, at least I wasn’t in on it then. I think HN is a hard venue to do comedy well, as you have to read the room over longer than a single comment thread or post. Your comments were already pretty deadpan and dry, so I think many couldn’t even see it as distinctly humorous rather than snarky or sarcastic or even unfunny if they viewed it as against HN guidelines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_man

Fraterkes 1y ago

Can you list any of the novel ideas in your comment?

thangalin 1y ago
Sure! * Review of wealth sources with respect to food * Socioeconomic ramifications of a free food distribution system * Implications of artificial wombs, longevity pills, and nefarious people * Benefits of personal, real-time DNA analysis devices * Organic, bioluminescing street lamp replacements with 500+ year lifetimes (a bathtub curve extension analog) * Robotaxi services using machine learning to optimize owner income * How optimal prisoner's dilemma strategies resolve Hume's guillotine * Strategies for evading capture in a surveillance state * What plans an AGI would give itself (that don't involve conquering humanity) * Ways an AGI could completely disable our emergency call centers * Rationale behind a Galactic race towards harnessing black hole energy and more.