Thank you for your feedback @"Jack Cummins", and to everyone who has offered their perspective on the scoring. It is a contentious topic, and in retro...
My interpretation is that this is a unique form of torture of Erika, daughter of a dissident in a futuristic authoritarian state. Erika is forcibly pu...
First, I would modify the working definition: a story is a narrative constructed within the bounds of an aesthetic genre. The reader may respond any w...
That without mind, matter is not scattered about in space in any way at all. Or maybe in your version, that reality is so bound up with subjectivity t...
To my understanding, yes actually. Without minds, "Matter is scattered about in space in the same way as it is now", but "Objects ... have no shape, c...
Not empathy, or not just empathy. Remember that empathy is hard-wired, based on mirror neurons. Whereas our notions of social equality have changed ra...
If the writer or "writer" uses ChatGPT to generate part or all of their story, this is indeed cheating, although technically I guess it is not, since ...
Is this not just indirect realism? We agree that appearance is mind-created. Here we also seem to agree that the appearance is a perspective on mind-i...
I'm torn by the scoring. On the I've hand it's a distraction, it generates drama and negative feelings. On the other hand something would be lost if i...
If this were my story I would have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make the premise philosophically plausible. As it stands, it is a l...
In the sentence "the Earth is further from the sun than Venus" , the sun is the frame of reference in which the relation "further" operates. It takes ...
Speculation? I don't see how. It takes a mind to mark something as a frame of reference. But it takes a mind to formulate a proposition at all. Does t...
Are you conflating a frame of reference with a mental perspective? Nothing can be nearer or further, larger or smaller, independent of a frame of refe...
Meaningless to us, whose every thought is conditioned by our perspective. We are perceptive and limited creatures with central nervous systems, and as...
He was hamming it up, trying to impress the girl. He sounded awkward and wooden, like an ad, and used "semaphore" wrong. She was impressed anyway. I t...
Like some others I initially had a hard time reading it. It might be the formatting, but also the style and pacing were such that it just seemed to re...
We might be talking past each other a little bit. My point is that "emergence" in itself offers no explanations. Nothing happens because of emergence....
I've always been skeptical of that. People pass out from far lesser interruptions to cerebral blood flow than the total catastrophe of beheading. More...
No, why would it? The only thing at stake would be whether the term 'emergence' would be used, which is not super rigorous. It is only ever a descript...
Emergence is a giant red herring in this discussion. Emergence is a description, not an explanation. If a complex phenomenon manifests properties that...
It seems like you can make a strong case that it is not, that it is more akin to mathematics. Consider digital information. Two digital objects are id...
A good hate-read on the topic: https://www.vulture.com/2013/05/schulz-on-the-great-gatsby.html I thought it was very meh, Appointment in Samarra was m...
Indeed. Also, when these things end, the carriage turns back into a pumpkin. Why not keep the magic alive a little longer, even if it becomes a bit st...
I'm with you, the writing was good I guess, but I just didn't get it. Who could engage with such characters? Part of the issue is that there is practi...
I don't know if there was some kind of psychoanalytic puzzle with a definite answer. If so, I don't know it, and so it wasn't relevant to my enjoyment...
Voting has been extended to 1/16 midnight UTC. Threads may be locked at any point after that. This gives one day per story, which should be more than ...
This sounds good, and there is probably truth to it. But I'm not sure people actually act according to it. By this logic, you should refuse a gift of ...
I absolutely agree and understand this, and yet, even knowing this and having created for many years in multiple media, negative feedback still stings...
Interesting, I never thought of this. But it is most definitely true. It is the point where the wheel's velocity wrt the ground is maximized. At every...
This seems to be a concise expression of the times: the apocalypse is coming, and we are utterly unequipped to deal with it. The characters were carto...
This is a cool story with what I see as issues in the small, medium, and large scales. On the small scale, it seems padded with unnecessary verbal fat...
Interesting I easily remember each of these and their contexts. Well, I did just read it yesterday, but my memory sucks, I wonder if the color helps t...
Haha, same actually, I create music as well. Definitely the only way to do it. I have no audience either, but really it doesn't matter, if I create so...
What better way of knowing what you create has merit other than if it is something you would enjoy? The alternative, creating for what you think a thi...
Yes, and yes. This is a melancholic story that managed to touch me emotionally, I don't think I can say that about any of the others. That is an accom...
It isn't necessarily one person, each of us may resonate poorly with one or a few of the stories. Interpretation of the scoring is necessarily subject...
Except this is not the system we agreed upon. Voting is an average, not a tally, and therefore low votes do indeed count negatively. Every system has ...
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