After thinking further about this book, I am even more annoyed by it. SPOILERS: The main premise of the story is that in order to have alliances and trade agreements with several alien species, humanity has come to an agreement with the aliens. They will each obey each other's laws in their own lands. This …
Weather
Here in Seattle we just had our biggest snow storm since 1990. Sure, it's small by other standards, but it was surprising and kept me home from work for a day. It's made me think of nature, though, and how it still has sway over us even with all our technology. What kind of world …
Will AI ever write fiction?
With all the advances in AI showing seemingly creative potential, I wonder if in some distant future, AIs will be able to scan the whole of human writing, and determine what makes for the perfect story--and start churning them out. I've always been a proponent of AI, and see it as more helpful than harmful …
It’s happening again…
The book I'm listening to, Replay, is laying the groundwork to really piss me off. After living his life over several times, the protagonist, Jeff, sees a movie out in theaters that he's never heard of before. It is a huge blockbuster that he definitely would have heard of or seen before in his previous …
How to avoid looking back?
I never used to look back, to wonder or care about how I could have done things differently. Maybe it's part of getting older, but I've started having those thoughts more often. I started listening to a new book recently, 'Replay', about a man who dies, and wakes up 25 years in the past, in …
Jonas David 