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When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she …
Disturbing details and how humans are seen as a resource to predate on "for the greater good" that maybe might potentially come from generative AI.
Disturbing details and how humans are seen as a resource to predate on "for the greater good" that maybe might potentially come from generative AI.
"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States …
A bit like "Stranger In A Strange Land" but for a US american journalist visiting "Ecotopia". The book is alternating between reports written by the main character for his newspaper and his diary entries. Thus its a mix between the "reportable" things and his personal escapades.
Especially the diary entries read a bit like some wishful thinking by Ernest Callenbach; but some of the reports are also revealing the age of the book in their attempt to show how wonderfully advanced Ecotopia is.
I wouldn't recommend attempting to read it for entertainment. If you seek somewhat solarpunk ideas, there might be something here, but I seriously hope there are better books around.
A bit like "Stranger In A Strange Land" but for a US american journalist visiting "Ecotopia". The book is alternating between reports written by the main character for his newspaper and his diary entries. Thus its a mix between the "reportable" things and his personal escapades.
Especially the diary entries read a bit like some wishful thinking by Ernest Callenbach; but some of the reports are also revealing the age of the book in their attempt to show how wonderfully advanced Ecotopia is.
I wouldn't recommend attempting to read it for entertainment. If you seek somewhat solarpunk ideas, there might be something here, but I seriously hope there are better books around.
I guess this is then "cozy mystery" territory? It’s an entertaining detour from textbook programming language learning. Like a bowl of crisps and watching something on TV.
I guess this is then "cozy mystery" territory? It’s an entertaining detour from textbook programming language learning. Like a bowl of crisps and watching something on TV.
Conan being Conan, monsters being monstrous, and women are there to be frightened (at best). Also, world-building is making up as many names as possible in as few pages as possible.
I don’t know what I expected. It’s of its time and it shows.
Some of the monsters are interesting though.
Reading along with the Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast; that's bound to cause jumping between anthologies of short stories.
Reading along with the Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast; that's bound to cause jumping between anthologies of short stories.
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
Reading this just confirms my believe that I have to read a book/story before I watch the movie/series adaptation. My imagination always veers towards the pictures of the movie and its visuals as well as story. Luckily even now already the story told in the movie deviates quite a bit from what's in the book.
Reading this just confirms my believe that I have to read a book/story before I watch the movie/series adaptation. My imagination always veers towards the pictures of the movie and its visuals as well as story. Luckily even now already the story told in the movie deviates quite a bit from what's in the book.
Revelation Space is a 2000 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It was …
A galaxy with alien archeological sites, transhumanism, legacy space travel tech and sinister mysteries. What's not to like? Maybe the writing style in some places. But all in all entertaining and even, in places, thought-provoking.
A galaxy with alien archeological sites, transhumanism, legacy space travel tech and sinister mysteries. What's not to like? Maybe the writing style in some places. But all in all entertaining and even, in places, thought-provoking.
Three 20-somethings are all that stands between an otherworldly threat and the survival of Earth in the latest thrill ride …
Three 20-somethings are all that stands between an otherworldly threat and the survival of Earth …
Didn't feel that well written. After the first two Bobbiverse books it felt somewhat disappointing. It is easy to read, but feels a bit too flat.
Didn't feel that well written. After the first two Bobbiverse books it felt somewhat disappointing. It is easy to read, but feels a bit too flat.