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Nature goes on an endless journey of transformation. The train is just the metaphoric vehicle.
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In my ecological reading of the book, this change represents our eventual capitulation to nature. Sure, we can walk it out for a time, but nature always wins. The efforts of humanity to transform the planet in its own image will be a losing proposit…
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Since these characters all blended together for me, I really couldn’t say I noticed any difference lol.
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Keep in mind it’s a fake name - she would have adopted it knowing what it meant.
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I’d say the crows and the captain represented two arms of authority.
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Lol - no relations stood out to me. Only the roles played by various people. I never thought of relationship as a driver of anything. The train was moving forward regardless. The wasteland was infiltrating the train regardless. I suppose at the end …
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I actually found the lack of definition of names to be quite confusing. Weiwei, Elena, the Captain and the crow were memorable because of their roles. But to me the rest kind of blended together.
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The curious thing, if you look at the map of the train, is that there is gardly enough room for passengers of any class. This whole effort, with walls and armoured trains and captains and crew, and past trains from which lessons were learned, is in …
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I mostly thought it was an ecological fable, so more the first, however I could see a side case for the second interpretation. I saw it as a metaphor for shutting ourselves off from nature, and perhaps a hopeful message for the future- the environme…
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@clash_bowley @NeilNjae @BarnerCobblewood Any comments on this? Some might have already bought Plutoshine and started it, in which case I’d suggest just to proceed among those who can get it.
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Riddle of the Sands is available from the Toronto Public Library as an e-book or as reference only hardcovers (which means you have to sit in the library to read them :rolleyes:) and there's a free Gutenberg e-book edition. There are also a few diff…
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Also not available at my library, it seems. They don't have any books by that author. A search of Amazon.ca only renders Projekt Pluto by that author, in German.
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I’ve finished as well.
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Yes, thanks for lending us your expertise!
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I'm not sure if it's worth it to buy Artesia. The game is unwieldy, but it's one of my favourite indie games I own for it's cool setting (a bit like a mix of ancient Greece and Persia in an early renaissance time period), and it has really interesti…
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On the other hand, it's hard to see how anyone could read @RichardAbbott 's two examples and not conclude that the AI in question knew what words meant, what muffins were, and that muffins could roll, lol.
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Hmm, yes. Much of which seems to be to say - the things we are currently calling Artificial Intelligence are not at all intelligent. They still remain tools - sets of rules or algorithms - written by human intelligences with purpose of speeding up o…
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So this means that AI doesn’t really think like we do. We would conceive of a plot, then assemble the words in such a way as to reveal the plot. But AI arrives at a plot by following a word-tree, picking one word at a time without knowing the plot, …
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The trouble with a rainbow is that although you can see it and run toward it, you can never actually reach it. And that may be another thing rainbows have in common with AI.
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A lot of rules-lite games in particular do not have levelling at all. Diaspora, which is based on the Fate system, allows you to change your aspects (prose character descriptions) to represent change at the end of a session, but you don't really imp…
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Autumn start would be good.
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FYI - I have now found a print copy of this, so ready to proceed should this move ahead. It certainly is a big book, in physical terms!
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It's an interesting question. No reason to think that an AI will have the same perception of time that we do.
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@BarnerCobblewood >When you talk about say BRP I see a game system that allows the players at the table to play games that aren't about the rather short list of good actions in the D&D games. I assume though that this requires greater work …
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> @NeilNjae said: > (Quote) > Personally, I think the current obsession with large language models is a combination of hype, wishful thinking, and the Eliza effect of anthropomorphising things that use words. Do ‘large language models’…
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> @BarnerCobblewood said: > I think that I get what your saying. What I'm saying is that you sound like you are thinking of AI as an enduring self, not say a transient arrangement of transistors that is entirely ephemeral, transient, etc., …
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I’m saying that AI is not fixed to its body. What prevents an AI that lives on an internet from moving to new hardware? Nothing that I can see. When my hardware gives out - my mind will give out too. I can’t move my mind to new hardware. When I can…
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Whereas I was born in Montreal and now live in Toronto. I somewhat agree with Barner - I find Montreal much more interesting. But this isn't really a question about whether the city itself has character, so much as whether the city in the novel had …
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He is apparently not a religious person, though I thought it seemed likely he was.
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Yes, I also thought it would be the control - mainly because I imagined that we were meant to believe it was one of the others.