Firefall SeriesPeter Watts
Firefall Series
by Peter Watts · first published 2023
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…your question. * Egan, Greg - Permutation City, Diaspora, and basically everything * Liu, Cixin - The Three Body Problem (trilogy) * Rajaniemi, Hannu - Jean le Flambeur (trilogy) * Watts, Peter - Firefall (series) * Chiang, Ted - The Lifecycle of Software Objects * Liu, Cixin - The Wandering Earth (short stories) I know quite a few people in love with Neal Stephenson, but I can't really muster his style. Check…
on “Ask HN: Recent sci-fi recommendations” ↗Check also Peter Watts Firefall series.
on “Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues?” ↗…challenge your thinking or force you to think hard and/or see things through another lens. They are also really good reads that are very hard to put down. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Firefall series by Peter Watts (Blindsight & Echopraxia) Axiomatic by Greg Egan N.N. Taleb's books These are all books I had seen written about in previous HN threads like this and ended up reading, so glad I did!
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗Another fictional investigation of bicameral minds are two novels in the Firefall series by Peter Watts.
on “Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues?” ↗…With so many programs competing for attention at once, the "consciousness" program was formed to "decide" how to spend its newly alloted attention. Peter Watts, marine biologist, explores this in his Firefall series (fiction) - the idea of consciousness arising out of conflict. It fits nicely with the folk wisdom that in "Flow", there is no sense of self. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618057072? : Origins of…
on “How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014)” ↗According to his blog, Peter Watts is currently writing the 3rd book of the Firefall Series. It'll be titled "Omniscience", no release date has been set yet.
on “Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)” ↗