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It's definitely unintentional comedy. Sometimes things are played straight, sometimes they're unintentionally hilarious like this, other times it's just nonsense. AI Dungeon is clearly "smarter" than a markov chain bot, but it still has a loose-at-best grasp of what the gently caress is going on in the story. Edit: also these are highly upvoted posts from the AI Dungeon subreddit, this isn't the average case for a story at all Cicero fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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freebooter posted:I read the first one yesterday and it was fine but forgettable. Not sure what the fuss is. The first one is a bit forgettable. The author really didn't have a direction and just published a very basic scenario short. The second book and beyond you really get more in-depth writing about murderbot and the world-building is quite excellent. I personally don't think it's A++++++ territory, but its definitely a fun pulpy read, and I'm looking forward to more books having finished them all. They sort of remind me of the very early Conan books in a way. Philthy fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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FuturePastNow posted:AIs are getting better at comedy and it's making me nervous
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Bhodi posted:https://twitter.com/dril_gpt2 is terrifyingly good It's still human curated. If they could teach an AI to curate them, then I would be impressed.
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I finally got around to reading Gold Fame Citrus and half-way through am not very fond of it. The characters are incredibly boring. The protagonist doesn't do anything, stuff just happens to her to which she reacts with barely any emotion. The vision of Southern California ruined by climate change is pretty cool but the way it's communicated in the text - several pages of Solaris-style infodumping about the ~dune sea~ - is just awkward. Much of the characterization is conveyed the same way, with pages and pages of backstory disconnected from the actual narrative. There's this annoying writing thing the author uses where she sets up something open-ended and then immediately resolves it in the next sentence. Like "He said he would be back. But he wouldn't." in more flowery language. Removes any sense of suspense for moments that should carry a lot of emotional weight. I dunno, recommend me good climate change fiction please? I'll probably finish this but I had hoped to like it a lot more 
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my bony fealty posted:I dunno, recommend me good climate change fiction please? I'll probably finish this but I had hoped to like it a lot more New York 2140 was decent, but then a lot of KSR's book revolve around the climate somehow, so you can dig through his catalogue. Oryx and Crake is really good. Outside of the Sci-Fi realm, The Water Knife is also really good.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250260256/ Never heard of it and seem to be hardly any reviews. Goon opinions?
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Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XD75HGV The Complete Fiction of HP Lovecraft - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UZ2G8PY/
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pradmer posted:Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke - $1.99 That Complete Lovecraft isn't really a deal, and is actually kind of a ripoff. Lovecraft is entirely in public domain, so if you absolutely must have his work in a Kindle ebook, you can almost always find one for a buck, or if you look at the right time, free. If an ebook isn't necessary you can find all of his work here: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/sources/hplcf.aspx
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250260256/ it's pretty fun, as i posted last week, but it is still a short novella FWIW
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It's here! God it's so tiny, it's not even a full 160 pages and they're tiny pages... using my mass market paperback edition of Cloud Roads as comparison. I'm not gonna lie: the price tag of 17 USD on the back is insulting as hell. Especially when Cloud Roads is 8$ for roughly the same size pages and way more content and an actual cover illustration.
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StrixNebulosa posted:It's here! Well if people are going this hard in on an overpriced novella, I guess I'll give it a try (for Ł2.44 from the UK kindle store)
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team overhead smash posted:Well if people are going this hard in on an overpriced novella, I guess I'll give it a try (for Ł2.44 from the UK kindle store) Overpriced novellas are tor's thing and I'm frustrated because I love novellas with nice packaging (reminds me of older sci-fi books) but I hate the price gouging. Usually I'll get new books via indiebound or my local bookstore to properly pay the author but zero regrets with using amazon on these things.
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Philthy posted:The first one is a bit forgettable. The author really didn't have a direction and just published a very basic scenario short. The second book and beyond you really get more in-depth writing about murderbot and the world-building is quite excellent. I personally don't think it's A++++++ territory, but its definitely a fun pulpy read, and I'm looking forward to more books having finished them all. They sort of remind me of the very early Conan books in a way. Hmmm OK maybe I'll stick with it. I've resolved to read 60 books this year and those ones are conveniently short. my bony fealty posted:I dunno, recommend me good climate change fiction please? I'll probably finish this but I had hoped to like it a lot more I quite liked Clade by James Bradley.
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freebooter posted:Hmmm OK maybe I'll stick with it. I've resolved to read 60 books this year and those ones are conveniently short. It's basically more of the same. If the character doesn't click for you and give you any warm and fuzzy feelings, the other books aren't massively different.
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Oh, neat. New Gene Doucette book came out today! It's #6 in the Immortal series. You can find it at the standard "where you want to buy books" locations.
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It seems Brian McLellan's new epic fantasy series will be with Tor rather than Orbit (who published all his powder mage books)
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Ornamented Death posted:Mike Resnick passed away. I just heard from Janis Ian and came here to post. Sad news.
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Judith Tarr is in a bit of a financial bind: https://twitter.com/dancinghorse/status/1214985798421889024 (Only book of hers I've read is "Ars Magica", but I remember it as being good).
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One of the few books that does a scholarly monk type character well. I've read the Hound & Falcon books before but I don't remember much about them except I wasn't all that impressed. However that was before I had a stronger lean towards historical fiction so I might have a better opinion of it if I re-read it these days.
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Are there any good scifi or fantasy books that prominently feature a hivemind entity/race? For those of you who have played System Shock 2, I am new to it and realized that The Many greatly interest me and I'd like to see more of the same or similar. I am no good at FPSes so Halo and the Flood are out. Besides, as much as love me some video games, nothing beats a good book with regards to bizarre alien lifeforms. I've gotten some great recs in the past in here and was hoping for more of the same. Thanks in advance. NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Ornamented Death posted:Mike Resnick passed away. Never read anything of his except Santiago and a short story collection, but they were solid works. A real loss.
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NikkolasKing posted:Are there any good scifi or fantasy books that prominently feature a hivemind entity/race? For those of you who have played System Shock 2, I am new to it and realized that The Many greatly interest me and I'd like to see more of the same or similar. I am no good at FPSes so Halo and the Flood are out. Besides, as much as love me some video games, nothing beats a good book with regards to bizarre alien lifeforms. Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
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NikkolasKing posted:Are there any good scifi or fantasy books that prominently feature a hivemind entity/race? For those of you who have played System Shock 2, I am new to it and realized that The Many greatly interest me and I'd like to see more of the same or similar. I am no good at FPSes so Halo and the Flood are out. Besides, as much as love me some video games, nothing beats a good book with regards to bizarre alien lifeforms. Ancillary Justice, maybe?
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FuturePastNow posted:it's unrelated but I just remembered this: f-fuckin those are good names
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NikkolasKing posted:Are there any good scifi or fantasy books that prominently feature a hivemind entity/race? For those of you who have played System Shock 2, I am new to it and realized that The Many greatly interest me and I'd like to see more of the same or similar. I am no good at FPSes so Halo and the Flood are out. Besides, as much as love me some video games, nothing beats a good book with regards to bizarre alien lifeforms. Peter Watts has written a lot of this: The Things (John Carpenter's The Thing, but from the Thing's perspective: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ ) Blindsight (one of my picks for 'best First Contact novel': https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003K15EKM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 ) Echopraxia (a tragically inferior sidequel to Blindsight: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IHCBDJ0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 ) The ants in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time might count, sorta? Not really.
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Kesper North posted:Peter Watts has written a lot of this: The sequel to children of time would definitely count though.
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NikkolasKing posted:Are there any good scifi or fantasy books that prominently feature a hivemind entity/race? For those of you who have played System Shock 2, I am new to it and realized that The Many greatly interest me and I'd like to see more of the same or similar. I am no good at FPSes so Halo and the Flood are out. Besides, as much as love me some video games, nothing beats a good book with regards to bizarre alien lifeforms. 'Pandora's Star' by Peter F. Hamilton has one of the creepiest and most, uh, aggressive hiveminds I've encountered in fiction. Blindsight is a really good book.
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Hive Minds: Ender's Game series, after the first one. Later books for Roman Legion meets Pokemon-based series Codex Alera from Jim Butcher of Dresden Files fame. The Antinium and arguably Goblins in the popular web serial The Wandering Inn (warning: comically long). Cicero fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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ianmacdo posted:The sequel to children of time would definitely count though. the octopods in children of ruin are kind of the opposite of a hivemind though? children of time itself has this, but in the very literal sense of how an ant hive is a "hive mind," rather than the standard scifi/fantasy Borg-style giant collective consciousness eke out fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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I would consider an aggregate or group intelligence to be a distinct concept from a hive mind. “Hive” implies stratification and order that wouldn’t be present in a loose mass of spores.
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How about the Conjoiners in Reynolds's Revelation Space series?
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General Battuta posted:'Pandora's Star' by Peter F. Hamilton has one of the creepiest and most, uh, aggressive hiveminds I've encountered in fiction. That series is a fun read. He's airport fiction in space, but at the highest tier of that kind of book. And the hivemind is a good antagonist, I was going to suggest it myself.
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NikkolasKing posted:Are there any good scifi or fantasy books that prominently feature a hivemind entity/race? For those of you who have played System Shock 2, I am new to it and realized that The Many greatly interest me and I'd like to see more of the same or similar. I am no good at FPSes so Halo and the Flood are out. Besides, as much as love me some video games, nothing beats a good book with regards to bizarre alien lifeforms. Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep" has pack minds that act on similar lines. Peter Watts "Blindsight" have a great twist on hive minds and what sentience means in general. Two short stories from the scifi anthology "The Final Frontier" have unique takes on Hive minds. "A Jar of Goodwill" by Tobias S. Buckell, and "Rescue Mission" by Jack Skillington. If you can get past the purestream tankie POV narration, Ken MacLeod's "The Cassini Division" features post-human hive minds living in the upper atmosphere of gas planets. If you go way back in time, AE Van Vogt's "Voyage of the Space Beagle" has two separate encounters/short stories with hive-mind entities.
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