Re:What is intelligent life? Portia Spiders and GPT
by joshstrange on Monday June 17, 2024 @03:52PM
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I hate spiders (yes, I know the value they provide, I can't get over how much they creep me out) but I loved the Children of Time series and also I just re-read A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge) which is also a favorite of mine. I'm not sure I could handle a movie of either but the books are great since I can forget they are "spiders".
Re:What is intelligent life? Portia Spiders and GPT
by joshmarlow on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:05PM
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Well I loved A Deepness in the Sky and Blindsight so now I'm adding Children of Time to my ever growing list.
Re:What is intelligent life? Portia Spiders and GPT
by romaintailhurat on Monday June 17, 2024 @05:04PM
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A very nice book indeed, and i also recommend the following tomes
Re:What is intelligent life? Portia Spiders and GPT
by ben_w on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:43PM
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I suspect that A Deepness in the Sky would work best as animation, to emphasise the same plot point that had the spiders using familiar human nouns and only reveal the graphical truth at the same time in the story we find out the literary truth.
(I vaguely remember something like this happening with a monster's POV section in Schlock Mercenary, but that's a long web comic and I can't remember when in it's history to look for).
Re:What is intelligent life? Portia Spiders and GPT
by AnimalMuppet on Monday June 17, 2024 @05:18PM
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The arc starts here: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-10-01
It switches POV here: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-10-22
Re:What is intelligent life? Portia Spiders and GPT
by ben_w on Monday June 17, 2024 @05:33PM
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Yup, that's the one I had in mind.
Re:What is intelligent life? Portia Spiders and GPT
by monkeycantype on Monday June 17, 2024 @09:15PM
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interesting connection between the mindrot from that book and the warfighter alertness link posted today that uses IR light to target drug activation in specific parts of the brain:
And even current societies concepts of male/female. In Children of Time the Portia Spiders are Female dominant, and eat the males. Scale that up to an intelligent society and it was pretty interesting perspective change to see female characters debating if they should go hunt some males for dinner. And later discussing 'rights' and "of course males can't be equal, can't they just be happy if we let them live.."