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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.

Looking for beta readers: username @ gmail.com






Can you list any of the novel ideas in your comment?

Sure!

* Review of wealth sources with respect to food

* Socioeconomic ramifications of a free food distribution system

* Implications of artificial wombs, longevity pills, and nefarious people

* Benefits of personal, real-time DNA analysis devices

* Organic, bioluminescing street lamp replacements with 500+ year lifetimes (a bathtub curve extension analog)

* Robotaxi services using machine learning to optimize owner income

* How optimal prisoner's dilemma strategies resolve Hume's guillotine

* Strategies for evading capture in a surveillance state

* What plans an AGI would give itself (that don't involve conquering humanity)

* Ways an AGI could completely disable our emergency call centers

* Rationale behind a Galactic race towards harnessing black hole energy

and more.


Username@Gmail.com bounced. I’ll be a beta reader.

I think they meant for you to replace the word username with their username in its place.

Theirusernameinitsppace@gmail.com bounced too.

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.

When you hit rock bottom, know when to stop digging, and when to get a shovel.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_man




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