tronicdude rated Ball Lightning: 5 stars
Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin
A new standalone military SF adventure from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem.
When Chen’s parents are …
What a fucking king
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tronicdude rated Death's End: 5 stars
Death's End by Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #03)
Death's End (Chinese: 死神永生, pinyin: Sǐshén yǒngshēng) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is …
tronicdude rated The Dark Forest: 5 stars
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林, pinyin: Hēi'àn sēnlín) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. …
tronicdude rated The Three-Body Problem: 5 stars
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu
Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its …
tronicdude rated Project Hail Mary: 5 stars
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
tronicdude reviewed Trust me, I'm lying by Ryan Holiday
You've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political …
Review of "Trust me, I'm lying" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
tronicdude rated How cars work: 5 stars
tronicdude rated The Little Prince: 5 stars
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For readers who would like a quick reminder of the book and its main storyline, here is a summary of …
tronicdude reviewed The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
A scientific biography of Jennifer Doudna, a founder and co-developer of the CRISPR gene-editing mechanism, …
Review of 'The Code Breaker' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Parts of it are superb. Other parts are needlessly redundant or an absolute waste of space. It could've been at least a quarter shorter without missing much.
Issacson gives too much airtime to bioethicists; in doing so he legitimizes them. Steven Pinker said it best when he told bioethicists to, "Get out of the way." Pinker elaborates further here.
Essentially, by perpetuating the meme that we should move slowly with biotech (lest we offend the bioconservatives) we are perpetuating the death and suffering of millions worldwide. Treating the human germline as holy ground is not only patently ridiculous, it is wildly immoral.
I genuinely do not understand how so many people (including the biotech innovators themselves) have been brainwashed with this meme. George Church is a notable exception.
All that being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and eagerly await his next work. Definitely a 5-star book, it's just …
Parts of it are superb. Other parts are needlessly redundant or an absolute waste of space. It could've been at least a quarter shorter without missing much.
Issacson gives too much airtime to bioethicists; in doing so he legitimizes them. Steven Pinker said it best when he told bioethicists to, "Get out of the way." Pinker elaborates further here.
Essentially, by perpetuating the meme that we should move slowly with biotech (lest we offend the bioconservatives) we are perpetuating the death and suffering of millions worldwide. Treating the human germline as holy ground is not only patently ridiculous, it is wildly immoral.
I genuinely do not understand how so many people (including the biotech innovators themselves) have been brainwashed with this meme. George Church is a notable exception.
All that being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and eagerly await his next work. Definitely a 5-star book, it's just irresponsible that he's mindlessly parroting a meme that is perpetuating death/suffering needlessly.
tronicdude rated Liftoff: 5 stars
Review of 'Hacking Darwin : genetic engineering and the future of humanity' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Fucking respect to my man and his footnotes.
tronicdude rated A grief observed: 5 stars
A grief observed by C. S. Lewis
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. …
tronicdude reviewed Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil
Review of 'Grand Transitions' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
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(left wing DESTROYED)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish …
Review of 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
When he visiting the prostitute thinking of his childhood love thoooooooooooooo shit got me FUCKED
tronicdude rated Principles: 5 stars
Principles by Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
Bridgewater Associates founder, Ray Dalio, offers a five-step process to getting what you want out of life, which involves systemizing …