Adrian M Ryan @adrianmryan@refactorcamp.org
I develop edtech products, do political research, and podcast about science fiction novels.
- Podcast
- http://www.spectology.com
- http://twitter.com/adrianmryan
Been following ribbonfarm since the "Future Nausea" essay, which was a moment of refactored perception in my early 20s.
Current work is a mix of freelance political research & working on an early startup. I also podcast about scifi books in my spare time at http://www.spectology.com
Mostly here for the cool links & to share the same. Inuit throat singing is right up my alley @strangeattractor— One of my fav podcast eps is abt the Deaf in the Soviet Union: http://seansrussiablog.org/2018/01/11/deaf-in-the-soviet-union/
i made a model for the life cycle of MMO guilds
Attempting to re-invent the trigger warning while desperately avoiding the words "trigger warning".
https://np.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/8uy56m/feature_request_add_nsfl_tag/
I am becoming convinced that "rationalism" is a disease that makes smart people even more susceptible to the Dunning-Kruger effect, and makes the outcomes of DK even more intense & harmful.
To be very impolitic, rationalism is the HIV of the mind, lowering auto-immune defenses & making otherwise benign issues a major problem.
(This isn't a perfect analogy bc rationalism also has some benefits, but best I got right now.)
What's the best TV show currently running (besides Bojack Horseman, of course)?
Sargasso of Space: Something that occurs in a lot of old science fiction pulp comics. A bunch of ships are mysteriously becalmed in a specific section of space. Over time possibly they drift. The crews merge, die, interbreed, fight, and so on.
Then it drifts into the players solar system and they now have to investigate what is basically a massive dungeon complex in space.
Heads up on a very important article about the intersection (or lack thereof) between science and intersectionality: https://psmag.com/social-justice/joe-henrich-weird-ultimatum-game-shaking-up-psychology-economics-53135#.7qazr996w.
tl;dr: Not only is science, especially psychology, sociology, and economic science is amazingly myopic but people in the US, in particular, appear to differ significantly from the international norm, meaning that many aspects of human behavior believed to be universal might be distinctly American.
Kudos to @Are0h for sharing it.
What are the best stories about hell?
Going first:
- Huis Clos / No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
- God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe
- "Other People" by Neil Gaiman
And an honorable mention goes to Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy, bc it's not explicitly about hell but I think it's reasonable to argue it is.
Star Trek: hive minds are slow and robotic
Blindsight: hive minds experience a dreamlike semi-consciousness
Evangelion: if you don't belong to a hive mind you're basically a hikikomori, but people who want to create hiveminds are sad and/or evil
This week on my book club podcast, we read and discussed Binti: Home, which is currently nominated for the Hugo for Best Novella.
My podcast is currently exploring the work of Nnedi Okorafor, particularly her Binti series. If you're a fan of far-future sociological science fiction, you'll probably enjoy the series.
First episode: http://www.spectology.com/e/31-the-binti-trilogy-pre-read/
Second:
http://www.spectology.com/e/32-binti-post-read-pt-1/
Third out next Tuesday, and the last one drops the Tuesday after that.
Consensual, weird auto-cannibalism. Show more
Been following ribbonfarm since the "Future Nausea" essay, which was a moment of refactored perception in my early 20s.
Current work is a mix of freelance political research & working on an early startup. I also podcast about scifi books in my spare time at http://www.spectology.com
Mostly here for the cool links & to share the same. Inuit throat singing is right up my alley @strangeattractor— One of my fav podcast eps is abt the Deaf in the Soviet Union: http://seansrussiablog.org/2018/01/11/deaf-in-the-soviet-union/
Excited to finally be on a good Mastodon instance.
