Blind Lake

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• api · Oct 11, 2014 · Recommends

  I recently read a contemporary one I'd add to the list: Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson. http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Lake-Robert-Charles-Wilson-ebook... It reminded me of classic Asimov, but updated, and the writing and characterization are superb. I find that…

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• e40 · Dec 26, 2015 · Recommends

  …ideas. Reading the reviews on The Affinities (the recommended book on the EFF page), makes it seem like it's not like his other novels. The Spin series is excellent. I can recommend A Bridge of Years, Blind Lake and The Chronoliths.

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• webmaven · Mar 16, 2021 · Recommends

  What you're describing is edging close to the setup for the 2003 novel 'Blind Lake': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Lake_(novel) In the novel, quantum computers (rather than ML per-se) are tasked with interpolating more and more detailed data from astronomical observations,…

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• superkuh · Feb 7, 2021 · Mentions

  Robert Charles Wilson's "Blind Lake" (2004) is a scifi book about a (then) very near future when the data from telescopes would be almost as much hallucinated from big data models as composed of actual data from measurements. It's plot…

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• api · Apr 17, 2025 · Mentions

  …and consuming a few hundred watts. Yet another is some kind of remote sensing that lets you explore without physically moving, like a real equivalent to remote viewing. There’s a sci-fi novel called Blind Lake about this. Combine with miniaturized super efficient information processing and you could have superintelligences that explore everywhere and learn everything without going anywhere. Lots of speculations…

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