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onFavorite booksbytommy@uptrusthq.com
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Best Fiction
The Name of The Wind
Anathem
Too Like The Lightning
World War Z
Stories of Your Life and Others
The Left Hand of Darkness
Hyperion
Cloud Atlas
The Alchemist
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oncrisprbytommy@uptrusthq.com
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We will get bird people after we get superintelligent AI that solves how to do bioengineering for us. =) Right now we would have no idea the kinds of genomic edits necessary and sufficient to make a bird-person....

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onClimate Alarmism & Geological Time, Meanderingsbyjordan@uptrusthq.com
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Okay, here’s my first response, maybe another coming later. Yeah, I agree that on Earth-relevant timescales, the Earth is totally gonna be fine (setting aside AI, which I’m doing for now). But I want to include the medium term in this thread, which seems missing....
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onFav books movies whateverbyb_b
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Fiction books I recommend! I’m pulling out maybe less well-known stuff from my goodreads favorites, which you can page through here if you want (https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4747793) neverending story (the great original movie is only the first half!) tschai (and more)...
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onDogfood Noticings, Jan 15byjordan@uptrusthq.com
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Spoiler alert markup text—i’m sure this is coming, just noticed I wanted it when referencing Dune

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