@niplav gwern.net compiled epub + print on demand when

@TetraspaceGrouping @niplav

I read the sequences out of a PDF entitled something like: EY compiled blog posts 20XX - 20YY. No reason someone couldn't make one of those for Gwern.

@WomanCorn @TetraspaceGrouping
Yep someone should probably do that

@AlexMulkerrin and I, on the other hand, have to read the greg egan novels—i guess for every favorites list there is a to-read sublist out there

@niplav heh, funny how that works out sometimes :D

Well off the top of my head I'd probably be promoting:

#1 Diaspora for the best depiction of virtual persons I've ever seen.
#2 Schild's Ladder for the adventure of unleashing a universal X-risk and the race to halt it.
#3 Permutation City; all about Cellular Automata so good but also weird cults too?
#4-N pretty much all the collections of short stories which have some vcool concepts

Orthogonal is bit weird, no Relativity in the setting :!?

@AlexMulkerrin
Yeah I skimmed through the first couple pages of Schild's ladder and this looks *exactly* like the stuff what's up my alley

@AlexMulkerrin @niplav Great list! If I may add a #5: Distress explores fundamental physics, bio engineering, and anarchy in interesting ways

@pseudoriemann hmm I might not actually have that one. (new target acquired! :D ) Is it an individual story or a compilation of them?

@AlexMulkerrin Full novel, but it packs a lot of ideas in there so it almost feels a bit like a compilation

@AlexMulkerrin @niplav I believe there is relativity in Orthogonal, but the universe lives on a Euclidean instead of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold, which makes stuff very weird. Also it's the only novel I've ever seen with a technical appendix, so it gets bonus points for that.

@pseudoriemann yep! I loved reading through the trilogy but had to have the energy for surprise physics lecturing to make much progress in it 😅

@AlexMulkerrin Haha yeah I kinda just powered through the lectures, nodding along whithout making serious effort to understand it - I already listen to lectures during the day and I was genuinely afraid it might make me understand real physics less ^^'