With the end of the #HisDarkMaterials TV show, I thought I'd write up a look back at my own experience with the original book trilogy and give my thoughts on their adaptations. #TheGoldenCompass #Alethiometer #PhilipPullman

https://www.jonwesleyhuff.com/2022/12/30/his-golden-materials/

Amused. I misread a post that used the tag #AIethics (with a capital 'i') as #Alethics (small 'l') - as in #Alethiometer from #PhilipPullman #HisDarkMaterials - and thought wow! Is this a thing in #ai research? I think it should be now ☺️ - the study of #Dust - both in Pullman’s sense (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_(His_Dark_Materials) and #GregEgan in his extraordinary #PermutationCity (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City) - a book that I revisit every few years because it is both incredibly disturbing and endlessly fascinating to think about. And #MaxTegmark #MathematicalUniverseHypothesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis. I suspect I am a #RadicalPlatonist.