The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge • Hacker News Board

Re: The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

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Post by sideshowb » Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 11:23 PM UTC

saiya-jin wrote: post #70

sideshowb wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> minor medieval squabbles Are you perchance channelling that space-Usenet poster who was utterly dismissive of the main plot until the very end? ;-) Parent comment should be marked SPOILERS, this one also. Srsly tho, I appreciate your perspective. I found the dog part a little slow at times but still super interesting due to their collective identity which was explored quite a lot. As such it wasn't just a medieval…

I do get it, no idea why everybody now starts explaining the story to me like I misunderstood it :) Its fine that person A likes object X, but person B doesn't, there is no rationalization needed since it won't change the opinion. I went for that sci-fi book for the space and sci-fi parts, and found the other side not interesting. That's it. I think I generally like sci-fi happening in space or generally futuristic.…

I think you misunderstand my reply. I'm not trying to change your mind, I'm trying to express disagreement without reaching for the downvote button, is all :-)

Re: The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

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Post by dang » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 5:43 PM UTC

nacho-daddy wrote: post #17

Is this a successful attempt to game the hackernews algos? The referenced WP page is obviously written by gtp-3, and the comments sound like a troupe of sock puppets in chorus. Yet here we are on the front page. Good job!

I don't see any evidence of that. The votes look perfectly normal to me, the submitter is a good HN submitter, and while I agree with you that we don't want GPT generated posts on HN, the OP doesn't read that way to me.

Re: The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

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Post by Palpatineli » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 9:02 PM UTC

steve1977 wrote: post #52

His books certainly belong those where “I would love to see this as a movie but I know I would hate the movie and be disappointed”. Some stories probably can only be told properly in written words, and that’s ok.

By Vinge's prophecy we will have AGI between this year and 2030, which means you can have perfect stable diffusion for movies before you retire, and you can tweak your movie for the book to your hearts content.