![]() ![]() I think some sense of human value comes from the way so many years of effort goes into raising it. ![]() He talks about this idea that it might always take a few decades to grow a mind in the "Story Notes "section. The story is about people raising virtual creatures - basically digital toddlers, with similar capacity for learning. Ted Chiang, "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time experience is algorithmically incompressible. If she's learned anything raising Jax, it's that there are no shortcuts if you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. (At their best "Black Mirror" and "Rick and Morty" pull the same trick.)Ĭhiang is especially interested in issues of free will and consciousness.Įxperience isn't merely the best teacher it's the only teacher. ![]() February 11, 2020I just finished Ted Chiang's short story collection "Exhalation" - about half of the pieces I had already read, but he is truly a master at what I love about science fiction - exploration of the human by looking into what would be different if just a few parameters were changed - a new technology, or a belief system discredited in our world turning out to be true. ![]()
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