#tedchiang

[monriatitans]

LITERACY QUOTE OF THE DAY

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

“We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound.” – Ted Chiang, The Best of Subterranean

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[reflections-in-t]

. . 感覚が刺激を受け知覚と想像力が拡張される… . まるで上質なコンセプチュアル・アートに接したときのような昂ぶりが抑えきれない . この無二の言語(読書)体験がテッド・チャンによって届けられ…没入中 . . 過去・現在・未来へとつながる時制を異言語を媒介に俯瞰的に可視化させ、そこに主人公の過去と“未来”の記憶や意識を入れ子のように組み入れた映画「メッセージ」の原作『あなたの人生の物語』 . そこから17年を経て完成したこの作品集には、タイムトラベル、AIの未来、量子論、自由意志、創造説など、科学・思想・哲学・文学の最新の知見を取り入れた9篇が収録されていて珠玉 . とりわけ、映画『スライディングドア』や『2つの人生が教えてくれること』、著作なら高崎将平の『そうしないことはありえたか』などとも通底するテーマ(一種のパ��レルワールド)を持つ「不安は自由のめまい」があまりにも出来が良く感嘆 . 音声(Kindle版)でも聴きたい気分 . . #息吹 #テッドチャン #EXHALATION #TedChiang #不安は自由のめまい #AnxietyIstheDizzinessofFreedom #大森望訳 #メッセージ #あなたの人生の物語 #浅倉久志訳 #早川書房 #Kindle #LeicaC #ライカc #LeicaCtyp112 #digitalcamera #コンパクトデジタルカメラ . . https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2z_9LvD_L/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thenerdynarrative]

What began as a research paper on the downsides of digital memory, “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” ended with the realization that people are made of stories. “Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative we’ve assembled out of selected moments.” We remember details that we consider important to *us* - so the stories we build from those details are what shape our personalities. #TedChiang #Exhalation #TheTruthOfFactTheTruthOfFeeling #ShortStory #CurrentlyReading #SciFi #AmReading #Bookworm #ScienceFiction #Fiction #SpeculativeFiction https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgl77ELOGHU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thatsmovietalk]

Arrival (2016) Directed by #DenisVilleneuve Based on #StoryofYourLife by #TedChiang Starring #AmyAdams #JeremyRenner #ForestWhitaker #MichaelStuhlbarg #TziMa #Arrival #Hollywood #hollywood #picture #film #movie #cinema #films #theater #movies #movieposter #movieworld #movielovers #movienews #screen https://www.instagram.com/p/CRjO7NfjuWn/?utm_medium=tumblr

[biblivio]

Exhalation, Ted Chiang

Alfred A. Knopf, 5/2019

Plot: 

“In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine… Including stories being published for the first time as well as some of his rare and classic uncollected work, Exhalation is Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic—revelatory.” – Amazon Book Description 

Reflection: 

My interest in this book was piqued when Barack Obama included Exhalation on his summer reading list in 2019. I normally don’t read a lot of anthologies, nor do I read a lot of science fiction outside of the YA world, but for some reason Exhalation’s description really intrigued me. I’m very glad that I stepped out of my comfort zone for this one. Each story is distinct, memorable and thought provoking. I think of a few of them on a relatively regular basis, especially “The Life Cycle of Software Objects” and “Omphalos.”

Chiang wrote in his story notes, “in general I’m incapable of writing a story around a specified theme, but on rare occasions it works out.” I took this as a challenge to figure out a uniting theme for the anthology, acknowledging that while his stories weren’t written with a specific theme in mind, surely one could be derived from the finished products.

Some stories deal with things like free will, consequences of the things we do, the futility of attempting to rectify our past mistakes, the implications of overcoming our own imperfect memories, while others concern themselves with language and the parental influence over the formative years of not just human beings, but any kind of being—living or machine.

My thoughts on the thematic connection between the stories in Exhalation feel amorphous and inarticulate. I’m landing somewhere in the vicinity of the choices we make—the way we treat ourselves, our words, our memories, those we are responsible for, our shared history—and how those choices could have anywhere from universal implications to none at all. There is something really philosophical happening between those extremes and in each one of Ted Chiang’s stories in Exhalation, and I definitely recommend you check it out.

And if my word isn’t enough, take Obama’s.

#exhalation #tedchiang #biblivio #bookstagram #bookreview #books #read #reader #reading #bibliophile #fiction #literature #bookrec #bookrecommendation #bookrecs #bookrecommendations #quotes #sciencefiction #shortstories #sciencefictionshortstories #scifi #anthologies #sciencefictionanthologies #shortstoriesanthology #bookquotes

[yosoygregoriosamsa]

“El infierno es la ausencia de Dios” de Ted Chiang

Por la película “Arrival” me enteré de Ted Chiang y buscando su bibliografía pude conseguir su libro de relatos “La historia de tu vida”,    Denotando inteligencia y la capacidad de crear historias profundas, sus cuentos definitivamente llevan a reflexionar.   “El infierno es la ausencia de Dios” es uno de ellos y aprovechando esta coyuntura, quise compartirlo con ustedes en este extraño 2020.   Espero les guste.   Como siempre, ahí les dejo el enlace.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QqJL6RWaeQtgLLURucGdmSjoAXOhOyUk

[1kitap1fotograf]

“Böylesine etkili bir filme (Geliş) dönüşen her öykünün sonunda dikkatimi kitaba, özgün kaynağa çeviririm. Ted Chiang yalın, aman vermeden ve ışık saçarak yazıyor.” #colsonwhitehead #tedchiang #geliş @monoklkitap tan çıkan ‘GELİŞ’ kitabı ile sizlerleyiz bugün. Fotoğraf: @acelemizvar #monoklkitap Lütfen alıntı yaparken kaynak belirtelim... Sitemizi ziyaret etmeyi unutmayın👇 www.1kitap1fotograf.com #1kitap1fotograf #kitap #👆🏼 (Isparta Province) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrXxEERFwOz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9dzrn1bxzsmv

[houl]

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang 4 stars #4 of 2022 . An interesting novella, which attempts to draw parallels between raising a child and developing a true artificial intelligence. The story has some bold and brilliant ideas, exploring the human relationships as much as those with the infant AI. While the idea of the sexual nature of these AI initially felt strange and forced, as this became more and more prominent it allowed for some bigger questions to be raised. An interesting story, but I’m glad it finished when it did. . #thelifecycleofsoftwareobjects #tedchiang #minimonotonebookclub #booksivereadin2022 #booksivedrawnin2022 #booksreillustrated #bookstagram #houlart #houl https://www.instagram.com/p/CaO8IJ7rDPd/?utm_medium=tumblr

[escapevelocitycollection]

As 2022 is almost here, it is once again time to try and be better versions of ourselves! Let’s set goals and resolutions and reduce the piles of media that are still waiting to be consumed! That’s how it works, not?

We asked ourselves which items from our media piles will finally get the attention they deserve in the new year. See our lists on our website!

What are your 2022 to read/watch/listen/play resolutions?

[reflections-in-t]

. . 映画の原作本を読んだことはほとんどない。 . 映像化されたものと原作本は別の表現物だと捉えているから。 . けれども例外はあって、アニー・プルーの「ブロークバック・マウンテン」とテッド・チャンの「メッセージ/Arrival」は読んだ。 . なので正確には、意志的に映画を観はじめた中学生の頃からいままでに観た数千本のうちの2本だけは読んだことになる。 . そこに今回、三冊目が加わった。 . トーマス・サヴェージの『パワー・オブ・ザ・ドッグ』だ。 . 人物造形、心理描写、割愛された細かなエピソードの数々、不安と静かなる狂気、そしてサイコスリラー的な側面まで、重層的なレイヤーで形作られたこの傑作の深奥に近づきより咀嚼し味わいたい、という思いから手にとった。 . まだ読みはじめたばかりだけれど文学としてもとても質が高く、その思いは次々と満たされつつある。 . . #ThePowerOfTheDog #パワーオブザドッグ #ThomasSavage #トーマスサヴェージ #波多野理彩子訳 #角川文庫 #BrokebackMountain #ブロークバックマウンテン #AnnieProulx #集英社文庫 #Arrival #メッセージ #StoryofYourLife #あなたの人生の物語 #TedChiang #テッドチャン #早川書房 #電子書籍版 . . https://www.instagram.com/p/CYQUT_OFX0m/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thenerdynarrative]

Picked up my copy of Ted Chiang's EXHALATION collection and read the next story, "The Lifestyle of Software Objects" - well, it's more of a novella than it is a short story, lol. I'm conflicted. I enjoyed the story, loved the progression...except the way it ended left me a bit unsatisfied. This is the story of Ana, who is recruited to work for a software company to help train digients the company created. Digients are cute animals you can log into the Date Earth server with your avatar to play with, teach to read or play games and even go on play dates with other avatars and digients. As is the way with tech, it does fall off in popularity until only a small group is left still active with their digients and of course there are other companies who create their own brands of digients to contend with. I loved seeing the company get started, how the digients were received by the public, the craze of everyone wanting them - even when the decline began, but just felt the ending was a little bit wanting.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

#20yrsago Libraries get Audible audiobooks https://web.archive.org/web/20030212115743/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/audiblelibraryusers/

#20yrsago Videos of GW Bush cracking jokes with Enron execs about accounting fraud https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-17-fi-enron17-story.html

#15yrsago David Byrne’s guide to being a musician in the 21st century https://web.archive.org/web/20080306023325/http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne

#15yrsago David Byrne and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke talk music biz https://www.wired.com/2007/12/ff-yorke/

#15yrsago MTV declares music industry “broken” https://web.archive.org/web/20071219064344/https://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1576538/20071214/madonna.jhtml

#10yrsago Lessons from an author who switched from a commercial publisher to an audience-funded Kickstarter book https://tobiasbuckell.com/how-i-used-kickstarter-to-reboot-a-book-series/

#10yrsago Amazon Replacement Order Scam: anatomy of a social engineering con in action https://web.archive.org/web/20121230232140/https://www.htmlist.com/rants/two-for-one-amazon-coms-socially-engineered-replacement-order-scam/

#10yrsago Point of Sale skimmer that prints out real-seeming receipts

#5yrsago EFF to US Copyright Office: fix the DRM rules that stop us from fixing our stuff, make fair use, and make IoT gadgets work the way we want https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-copyright-office-improve-exemptions-digital-millennium-copyright-act

#5yrsago The Donald Trump droid is live at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2017/12/the-hall-of-presidents-reopens-at-the-walt-disney-world-resort-after-year-long-transformation/

#5yrsago Ted Chiang: Elon Musk’s fear of runaway AI is a projection of his repressed terror of runaway corporations https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

#5yrsago The Tea Party’s baseless claims of IRS discrimination left the agency on life-support, unable to police dark money gushing through “charities” https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/fallout-from-allegations-of-tea-party-targeting-hamper-irs-oversight-of-nonprofits/2017/12/17/6403c1c0-c59e-11e7-a441-3a768c8586f1_story.html

#5yrsago Anatomy of how crooks use financial secrecy in the UK and New Zealand to rip off international investors with impunity https://www.interest.co.nz/business/91250/misuse-nz-companies-part-iii-backdoor-access-uk-classic-cross-jurisdictional

#5yrsago When Justin Trudeau was in opposition, he voted for Canada’s PATRIOT Act but promised to fix it; instead he’s making it much, much worse https://citizenlab.ca/2017/12/citizen-lab-and-cippic-release-analysis-of-the-communications-security-establishment-act/

#5yrsago As climate deniers claim credit for killing Net Neutrality, the FCC’s internal auditor reveals that Neutracide was based on a lie https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbympa/net-neutrality-fcc-inspector-general-report

#5yrsago EPA employees who spoke out about Trump are having their emails ransacked, and the EPA’s new “monitoring” firm is linked to a GOP oppo research firm https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/us/politics/epa-pruitt-media-monitoring.html

#5yrsago China will collect the DNA of every adult in Xinjiang province, where Uyghur people are systematically oppressed https://www.techdirt.com/2017/12/18/china-is-building-ultimate-surveillance-tool-dna-database-every-adult-resident-troubled-xinjiang-region/

#5yrsago Female adolescent macaques practice sex by mounting male deer https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-017-1129-8

[devenirmilliardaire]

PREMIER CONTACT Film Complet en Français sorti en 2016 https://tinyurl.com/yje47av7 Dans le film Premier Contact, réalisé p... #Contact #décrypter #DenisVilleneuve #experte #extraterrestres #Film #Langage #littéraire #Premier #PremierContact #réalisé #sciences #TedChiang #Terre

[sportskafunel]

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[buzzkafunel]

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[kafunel]

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