My hard sci-fi book dovetails into AGI, economics, agrotech, surveillance states, and a vision of the future that explores a fair number of novel ideas.
Well you misspelled place, but that word likely isn’t present in their email, so I apologize for the instructions being unclear. I don’t know their email definitively, so I guess you’re on your own, as I don’t think that the issue would be resolved by rephrasing the instructions, but I’m willing to try if you think it would help you.
Sorry - I was making a joke that I literally was typing in those words, not replacing them with my own info. Apparently that didn’t land at all, maybe should’ve used quotes.
I see what you were going for. It was an attempt. The delivery could use some work. The joke itself may need a complete rewrite to be a different joke, but it might be salvageable.
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For my part, I’ll admit that the setup wasn’t very good. I was trying to be the straight man foil to your bit to the degree I felt your comment permitted, as I’m not “in on the joke,” as it were, at least I wasn’t in on it then. I think HN is a hard venue to do comedy well, as you have to read the room over longer than a single comment thread or post. Your comments were already pretty deadpan and dry, so I think many couldn’t even see it as distinctly humorous rather than snarky or sarcastic or even unfunny if they viewed it as against HN guidelines.
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