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Always on the lookout for book recommendations, I'll add it to the list.

Nice, I was big into fantasy growing up, I've read all three. Your style reminded me of someone else, I can't put my finger on it, maybe Gene Wolfe or...

Same, @"180 Proof" who are your influences for this style?

There actually is an answer to this: Gaiasm. The one true, real life, utterly neglected religion. The only one where there is no need to resort to per...

I wonder how many people watching from the sidelines would be interested in doing another now. But if it wont be for many months I'm agreeable to do a...

I would prefer to move on to round 2 of the competition. Unless there is serious $$$ involved determining a single winner is of minor importance. Thou...

Remembrance - @"tim wood" He guessed everybody but himself A Weak Foundation - @"Leghorn" He clearly said "great guess!" when someone guessed I wrote ...

Thanks! True enough. I'm alternately impressed and annoyed by Zizek, I'll have to check it. Thank you! I'm also definitely influenced by the tradition...

The God Who Isn't Here disappoints you, yet again. I wrote Flight. One of the most rewarding parts of this was getting to read other people's interpre...

Thanks for setting this up! I really had a blast flexing the old, dormant writing muscle. This format is so much more entertaining and motivating than...

A Weak Foundation - @"Noble Dust"

Dang it! Makes total sense, but it was too funny, well done Benkei.

I really think the AI one was Untitled. It struck an odd chord with me. It was so: This happened. Then that happened. Then this happened.

I only go through phases of participation in this forum, so a lot of these are more or less random guesses. Dead Baby Shoes - @"Hanover" Hitchhikers -...

To me the wry sense of humor matches

The problem is if you do a proper guess you out your own. I guess you need to swap your own with one you don't know anyway.

Dead baby shoes - Hanover

Remembrance - Tim wood

Wow, this one is the real mystery. Is the literary Turing test solved? Even if @Benkei mucked with it I'm ashamed I didn't spot it.

Exciting! Down to the wire!

"reasonable people presenting well-supported dissenting opinion" Never mistake what is doing as a reasonable exchange of ideas in search of the truth....

We could totally do that next time. Just use an offsite poll.

I did not. Or... did I?

Can we do another one right after? I have another story idea raring to go. Two actually! Anyone else interested? The guessing will be more fun when we...

Oh really, Issac? Its my kind of rhetoric that is doing this? After spending untold hours manning the forums sowing doubt about the vaccines, he pious...

And so long as they are anti-wherever-I'm-at-at-any-given-moment

And pray tell, what are these other strategies? Endless lockdowns? Wearing masks the rest of our lives? Keep in mind that the same mouth breathers scr...

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So your contention is that by having a voice in a democratically managed company, you somehow achieve *less* autonomy than you would in a traditional,...

Yes, but without infection transmission is impossible. If the vaccine reduced infection and transmission each by 50%, overall likelihood of the subjec...

How will guessing work? Obviously we can guess ourselves.

Well if the whole country was vaccinated, 100% of those infected would be vaccinated. Further, children, who are ineligible, and young adults, who get...

Delta makes this complicated, especially since published numbers are all over the place. But I was wrong, what really matters is (difference in infect...

I was quoting @Fishfry here. This is from a country with a high vaccination rate. What really matters though is the transmission rate.

Wow I'm really not following this "logic". The argument that a random individual is unlikely to cause harm is generally an excellent argument against ...

But then what is your model of where these perceptions come from? Do you simply not have one?

Well you can analyze any number of ways. But these are models of a single perceptual event of a single object. Yours seems to mix this with a history ...

Thank you Amity! Every author is an attention whore. You have been a most generous and gratifying Jane.

Here I think 'external state' means light waves in BIS, electrode in BIV. But our analysis usually extends further than the immediate carrier of senso...

I agree with your analysis of language in general. If we are participating in the thought experiment and imagining we are BIVs, then we must be imagin...

Whether or not they are as contagious once infected, they are infected at lesser rates. As continual testing of everyone is impractical, they therefor...

Mercy C, I see...

I strongly suspect this is not an epistemic act at all, but rather a distinction brains are hardwired to make. Witness organic brain disorders like sc...

LOL. Well after 20 years I guess I need some textual enhancement! More philosophically, I don't think its about dick waving, rather a gendered prefere...

But 'Paris' is a proper noun, and here there are two of them. How? We can just as readily imagine a scenario where no vat-concept corresponds in any w...

Me have penis. Me like competition. Seriously, winning is obviously meaningless. But the competition adds a layer of fun and motivation which is sorel...

In light of the fact I won't be winning this one, let's do another round right after. This one was a good warmup.

Yes but there is a distinction between the world they present and the real world. This distinction is what the word "reality" delineates, without it t...

I'm not sure I buy this. Since we are making up the vat scenario anyway, why not make it up such that vat world concepts correspond with trans vat con...