What if you were to raise a quantum computer like it was a human child? It's "Singleton" by @gregeganSF, from the February 2002 issue of @InterzoneMag!

https://sffremembrance.com/2023/08/17/novella-review-singleton-by-greg-egan/
#sciencefiction #gregegan #interzone

I recently read Schild's Ladder by @gregeganSF . Like a lot of his work, full of fun and thought-provoking ideas for how the universe could work, mixed with great world-building.

I am skeptical of some of the quantum mechanics stuff, though quantum mechanics isn't my area. Will post in a spoiler-guarded follow-up.

#reading #book #GregEgan #scifi

I recently read Schild's Ladder by @gregEgan. Like a lot of his work, full of fun and thought-provoking ideas for how the universe could work, mixed with great world-building.

I am skeptical of some of the quantum mechanics stuff, though quantum mechanics isn't my area. Will post in a spoiler-guarded follow-up.

#reading #book #GregEgan #scifi

Right. So way behind posting Book 6 of #HaveRead which was Greg Egan again. Perihelion Summer is a great novella? Short novel? Or real page turner with lots of climate change? It glances off some of the physics flyby in "Instantiation" but in this case objects perturb the Earth's orbit so we get instant crisis. A short version of KSR's "Ministry for the Future" is in here. And maybe better for being shorter and local.

#GregEgan #PerihelionSummer #books #sf

Book 4: The #SF anthology "#Instantiation" by #GregEgan. This hits some of the points he usually dives deep on: physics, math, escape. If you liked "Orthogonal" this will scratch some of the same itches in places.

Amidst all the chat-GPT #AI hype this is a good antidote.

Sequence starting with "Bit Players" was creative. A good counterpoint to transhumanism mind upload stuff.

The Pane in "The Slipway" from 2019 hit a lot of the slide into fascism we've been living in but sidewise.

#HaveRead

Book 4: The #SF anthology "#Instantiation" by #GregEgan. This hits some of the points he usually dives deep on: physics, math, escape. If you liked "Orthogonal" this will scratch some of the same itches in places.

Amidst all the chat-GPT #AI hype this is a good antidote.

#HaveRead

Sequence starting with "Bit Players" was creative. A good counterpoint to transhumanism mind upload stuff.

The Pane in "The Slipway" from 2019 hit a lot of the slide into fascism we've been living in but sidewise.

Book 4: The #SF anthology "#Instantiation" by #GregEgan. This hits some of the points he usually dives deep on: physics, math, escape. If you liked "Orthogonal" then this will scratch some of the same itches in places.

Amidst all the chat-GPT #AI hype this is a good antidote.

Sequence starting with "Bit Players" was creative. A good counterpoint to transhumanism mind upload stuff.

The Pane in "The Slipway" from 2019 hit a lot of the slide into fascism we've been living in but sidewise.

One From The Archive: May 1994 featuring Greg Egan and Sarah Ash.
#sarahash #gregegan #sff #sciencefiction #speculativefiction

@gregdember Did you ever read (skim) Theory of Nothing? If not, I can offer you a more readable, entertaining, science fictional take on the topic: the novel Permutation City by #GregEgan. #transhumanism #transhuman

@davidr I have read the #TerryPrachett Death novels and two of the Witches series but so many more waiting for me to enjoy! Not familiar with #ConnieWillis or #GregEgan - thank you

@dejoslin #TerryPratchett #ConnieWillis #GregEgan

I’m gonna have a go!

5-7 of your fave authors, put them as hashtags so other fans can find you, boost etc.

#DaveHutchinson
#ArkadyMartine
#MarthaWells
#CixinLiu
#BeckyChambers
#MeganEOKeefe
#GregEgan

#ScienceFiction #FavouriteAuthors

Tonight, I’m thinking about:

#TransHumanism #QuantumImmortality

And thinking a lot about #GregEgan and how his writing has given my brain new wrinkles. Also sometimes hoping that #NickBostrom is right, sometimes wrong.

If he’s right, can we edit ourselves / reality, #TheMatrix style. Would a fully autonomous sentient appear like a superhero or God?

Lastly, does it explain the #FermiParadox - is this sandbox we’re in deliberately human-only because it’s cheaper?

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.

Yay. SFF writer Greg Egan @gregeganSF is on Mastodon. 😃

#SFF #Writers #GregEgan

Lovely. Greg Egan on how to solve the 'find the fake coin' puzzles as featured in Quanta Magazine. Solving the puzzle, knowing the fake coin is heavier / lighter than the others, is easier. It's more difficult if you only know the fake coin has a different weight.

https://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/FindTheFakeCoin/FindTheFakeCoin.html

Original puzzles, if you want to try before seeing his solution [ https://www.quantamagazine.org/puzzles-on-weighing-truth-with-a-balance-scale-20220627/ ]

#Puzzles #GregEgan

A new collection, "Instantiation", by Greg Egan is out. It contains eleven recent stories by Egan.

For those not familiar with Greg Egan, he's an Australian based writer of 'Hard SF' stories.

The collection can be bought DRM-free from Amazon, but I recommend buying it from Smashwords.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1001668

#SFF #HardSF #GregEgan #Ebooks

Interesting article by SF writer Greg Egan on this question: "If you looked through a wormhole, what would you see?"

#SFF #GregEgan #WormHole

https://theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2019/07/02/the-view-through-a-wormhole/

Fascinating. An anonymous 4chan poster in 2011 and writer Greg Egan (last month) posted interesting results related to Superpermutations initially raised by an Anime series.

#Mathematics #Writers #GregEgan #Research

https://www.quantamagazine.org/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem-20181105/