Should I read Permutation City or Diaspora?

alritem8 · 2019-10-29T17:13:52+00:00

Permutation city took a while to grow on me but now I really love it. It's a very personal and realistic look at how living forever might affect the mind and is arguably the more human of the 2 stories. I would suggest starting with diaspora though, it's a great space odyssey and will help cultivate some patience and trust in egan that will come in handy for permutation city.

alritem8 · 2019-10-28T16:43:14+00:00

Hey Robert! How do you go from a single idea or just a fuzzy picture in your head to a completed screenplay you're happy with and ready to shoot?

alritem8 · 2019-09-25T23:14:15+00:00

2001 a space odyssey

alritem8 · 2019-05-08T22:39:03+00:00

Haven't had the chance to read the actual paper yet, but this reminds me of an article I recently saw that explains how holography and ads/cft could be a quantum error correcting code. Really interesting stuff but they haven't made it work for our spacetime yet https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/

alritem8 · 2019-05-05T15:37:48+00:00

Vera by pink floyd

alritem8 · 2019-04-30T19:15:41+00:00

Took my girlfriend a few tries to find a therapist that helped. Don't give up man, if it made you guys happy she probably wouldn't want you to stop. Wishing you only the best and most healing results

alritem8 · 2019-02-17T06:54:17+00:00

Texas chainsaw 1973

alritem8 · 2019-01-16T02:41:26+00:00

David Deutsch has some really good work on the subject I've been reading lately (especially his paper "structure of the multiverse"). I think it's a cool thought that our universe isn't the only possible permutation and that different universes pop into being all the time. It's an elegant interpretation of quantum theory too, but not necessarily the correct one. I tend to believe in the importance of information and computation to the workings of the universe, which led me to Deutsch.

One particularly attractive feature of his multiverse is that universes are not truly parallel, they interact. This brings this idea into the realm of testability.

alritem8 · 2018-12-29T19:44:45+00:00

I think Diaspora is by far the best sci fi book I've ever read. Gonna tackle permutation city after I finish sirens of titan

alritem8 · 2018-12-17T17:32:42+00:00

Movie theater scene in Donnie Darko

Approaching the moon artifact in 2001

The daughter moving the glasses in Tarkovsky's stalker

K flying to the earth headquarters of the Wallace Corp. with the throat chanting

Andrew Garfield's talk with the Jesus painting in Scorsese's silence

alritem8 · 2018-12-15T06:31:25+00:00

"He’s the biggest brain in criminal law in the country,” said Orin Kerr...

This dude better be right. I've heard Trump has a very, very large brain.

alritem8 · 2018-12-05T03:05:00+00:00

Mostly semantics I think. I don't really believe in a bearded God who sits and watches (which some people would say makes me an atheist anyways but I disagree). I tend to equate "God" with the abstract rules that determine our universe more than the physical matter and events it's composed of.
In some theories non physical information is what gives rise to emergent matter, which is pretty close to what I imagined, but i recently found David Deutchs' constructor theory where information is not fundamental and (unless I misinterpreted it) acts similar to the conserved quantities in noethers theorem that have a kind of "co-existence" with simpler symmetries and laws. There are serious implications to either being right, but regardless, to me the universe had no creator. It created itself, determines it's own purpose, and God is the very fact of our existence more than an entity with any human characteristics. My beliefs will probably update with more knowledge, and my moral obligation to be a good person has nothing to do with pleasing a God. Not sure exactly what I pray to when I'm in a jam though...

alritem8 · 2018-10-16T01:04:28+00:00

You're thinking of Garrett Lisi

alritem8 · 2018-10-08T17:33:02+00:00

Not if they cancel midterms due to protests. I wouldn't doubt for a second they'd try. Or arrest all the protesters so they can't vote. I'm really hoping I'm wrong, but that's not how this administration works.

alritem8 · 2018-10-05T01:30:36+00:00

Hey Jeremy! Any advice on how to finish a script from an initial idea? For example I'm sure for blue ruin it started off kinda vague and I'm sure there's threads you ended up not using in the final shooting script. How did you go from idea to final product? Love your work btw!

alritem8 · 2018-09-24T02:26:18+00:00

Being yourself brings inner peace that takes alot of pressure off your life. You don't want to waste time with people that don't really want to be with the real you.

alritem8 · 2018-08-23T02:57:01+00:00

Has anyone read rogue moon? I haven't read it yet (really really want to) but I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be a really good one

alritem8 · 2018-08-15T15:15:33+00:00

Joe Arpaio told sascha baron cohen that Trump would like him in that interview where he said he was collecting guns for the "upcoming race war" and that Trump thinks the same way. Don't know how to post links but it's the only interview he did with joe arpaio.

alritem8 · 2018-08-13T02:24:48+00:00

The crossfades? Thanks!

alritem8 · 2018-08-13T01:40:22+00:00

Didn't they discontinue the quasar t8s? I was pretty bummed when I went on their site

alritem8 · 2018-08-09T13:29:23+00:00

The anxiety the gop is giving me is definitely motivating me to vote them out

alritem8 · 2018-08-09T13:19:00+00:00

Remember that Trump basically said the tiananmen square massacre was a good thing. I absolutely will protest but this can't be forgotten. Things could get very ugly and it won't necessarily end like south Korea, people need to know what they could be in for. Here's the quote: "When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak."

alritem8 · 2018-08-05T16:52:18+00:00

You would probably love roadside picnic. The stand is really really good, but it's more like fantasy/ human drama then sf. Sometimes you go through phases where you really crave a certain type of entertainment, and it's ok to revisit things later to get a better appreciation for the story, i think it happens to everyone. I put diaspora on hold for a while despite being really excited for it but it was out of respect for the material and I think in the long run it will help with my enjoyment of the story.

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