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andrewducker) wrote2017-11-24 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-11-24 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- altruism,
- apology,
- arabic,
- australia,
- avatars,
- batteries,
- charity,
- china,
- conservatives,
- drugs,
- effectiveness,
- faces,
- fail,
- fame,
- games,
- graphics,
- hallucinations,
- history,
- immigration,
- labour,
- language,
- learning,
- links,
- marijuana,
- memory,
- middle_east,
- money,
- music,
- pain,
- power,
- psychology,
- reading,
- reviews,
- saudiarabia,
- schizophrenia,
- scifi,
- scotland,
- sexism,
- technology,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- viral
Interesting Links for 24-11-2017
- Tesla completes world's largest lithium ion battery in Australia
- (tags: australia batteries power )
- How to read reviews
- (tags: reviews games )
- The Conservatives are the party of high UK borrowing and low debt repayment
- (tags: conservatives money fail )
- It’s called effective altruism – but is it really the best way to do good?
- (tags: altruism effectiveness charity )
- SF doesn’t really make you stupid. It’s more that if you’re stupid enough to be biased against SF you will read SF stupidly.
- (tags: scifi reading psychology )
- The Financial Realities of Going Viral
- (tags: money Fame viral )
- "My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community"
- Good Lord. An _actual_ apology!
(tags: apology sexism Technology china usa ) - Why the UK will not be speaking Arabic in a decade.
- (tags: language uk arabic immigration )
- A History of Music, through the medium of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky"
- (tags: music history )
- 'I'm not going to listen to you any more' - Confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped patients hearing voices to cope better with schizophrenic hallucinations
- (tags: schizophrenia avatars hallucinations )
- What's going on in Saudi Arabia (an interview with the crown prince)
- (tags: saudiarabia )
- Call of Duty: WW2's takes a huge step in rendering faces
- (tags: faces graphics games )
- Medical Marijuana users reduce their opioid consumption dramatically
- (tags: marijuana drugs pain )
- Observations of an ex pat: The Middle East explained
- (tags: middle_east )
- Chess, memory training and music just make you better at chess, memory training and music
- (tags: games memory music psychology learning )
- Why I wish Kez Dugdale well for her jungle stint
- (tags: labour tv scotland )
Re: SF doesn’t really make you stupid. It’s more that if you’re stupid enough to be biased aga
On the other hand, I'm quite sure that if someone gave me cat detective fiction, or Elizabethan court intrigue fiction, to read I would read it "stupidly", and I'm not convinced that's a bad strategy *even if it's intrinsically as well-written as anything else I read*. Whereas with my current genre of choice, which is deindustrial SF, I probably read it *less* stupidly than it objectively deserves, because those are the settings and counterfactual possibilities I'm most interested in.
I think having genre-preferences is inevitable, under the current proliferation of books such that you can't possibly read everything you might want to even within a genre, and I can see how one might decide sensibly that aliens aren't one's priority. (Though it's harder to see how one decides sensibly that cat detectives are...)
Re: SF doesn’t really make you stupid. It’s more that if you’re stupid enough to be biased aga
Re: SF doesn’t really make you stupid. It’s more that if you’re stupid enough to be biased aga
I've read the odd self-published thing which switches genre midway through, in a way which no self-respecting publisher would allow. It certainly wakes you up. (Unfortunately they have a tendency also to misuse punctuation in a way which no self-respecting publisher would allow, and I'm irredeemably twitchy about that.)