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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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On a semi-related note, I recently got around to reading Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future (loved the Mars trilogy and thought I should get to his latest), and this chapter had me wanting to give up sci fi as well, so I will subject you all to it:
I am Jack's bone-weary sigh.
Well that's going immediately onto the "things that looked promising but what the fuck, so actually don't read ever" list.
It's one of the most unevenly written works I've ever read. The opening chapter is absolutely harrowing,and many of the subplots are pretty interesting. It's not like KSR is a cryptobro, he offers plenty of critique of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the novel, he just adopts "blockchain" as a handwave-y fix for financial transparency. It's also at least interesting to see attempts at optimistic climate fiction, but I think the novel could do with a couple hundred fewer pages.
His attempts at Steinbeck sprinkled throughout, of which that chapter is the worst, are universally terrible, though.