Published a review of Ted Chiang, my favorite science fiction short story writer.
Most relevant to EAs: he’s one of the few living SF writers who portrays technology as potentially enhancing humanity rather than dystopian. I really like how he imagines what’s possible and takes ideas seriously. But he completely misses societal-level responses to transformative tech. His worlds get universe-altering inventions and use them for personal therapy instead of solving coordination problems or running multiverse-wide RCTs.
In (attempted) blinded trials, my review is consistently ranked #1 by our AI overlords, so check out the one book review that all the LLMs are raving about!!!
I am a huge Ted Chiang fan, but your review misses one of the most amazing things about his writing—it is written in very brief and straightforward words and sentences!
A number of his short stories are available for free online, for instance Exhalation in Lightspeed magazine. Under ‘Works’ on his Wikipedia page, you can find others (sometimes via web archives)
Published a review of Ted Chiang, my favorite science fiction short story writer.
Most relevant to EAs: he’s one of the few living SF writers who portrays technology as potentially enhancing humanity rather than dystopian. I really like how he imagines what’s possible and takes ideas seriously. But he completely misses societal-level responses to transformative tech. His worlds get universe-altering inventions and use them for personal therapy instead of solving coordination problems or running multiverse-wide RCTs.
In (attempted) blinded trials, my review is consistently ranked #1 by our AI overlords, so check out the one book review that all the LLMs are raving about!!!
I am a huge Ted Chiang fan, but your review misses one of the most amazing things about his writing—it is written in very brief and straightforward words and sentences!
A number of his short stories are available for free online, for instance Exhalation in Lightspeed magazine. Under ‘Works’ on his Wikipedia page, you can find others (sometimes via web archives)