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Blindsight (Watts Novel)

90 points · 102 comments · mooreds

  1. sxp · · focus · HN ↗
    This is one of my favorite books and it&#x27;s fun to read for anyone interested in the AI consciousness debate. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hpmorpodcast.com&#x2F;blindsided-00-announcement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hpmorpodcast.com&#x2F;blindsided-00-announcement&#x2F; is a podcast that read the book last year. And <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blindsight.space&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blindsight.space&#x2F; is a Watts&#x27; approved website that has a short film&#x2F;movie trailer for the book.
    1. zetsurin · · focus · HN ↗
      Second book echopraxia is good too
      1. niek_pas · · focus · HN ↗
        Blindsight is probably my favorite novel, and I liked echopraxia fine but it was definitely of a different class to me. The worst parts of blindsight are Watts&#x27; descriptives (where is everyone right know? What does this area look like? What actions are currently happening?) and Echopraxia suffers from this even more than Blindsight already did.
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