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Exhalation's Truth of Fact, Truth of Fiction: Is Ted Chiang a Relativist?
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This week we tackle another short story by Ted Chiang: From his 2019 Exhalation collection Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling.
Ludditism and cognitive tool breakthroughs: we go through the pros and cons. Rich wants to go to the moon. We're not sure how much of a luddite, or dare we say relativist, we should make Chiang out to be.
Fallible memories: just how bad are our memories? Benny and Rich have opposing intuitions,
Special guest episode coming soon!
CHAPTERS
- (00:00:00) Summary
- (00:00:00) Chiang, a luddite?
- (00:00:00) Founding myths
- (00:00:00) Cognitive tools
- (00:00:00) Fallible memories
- (00:00:00) Final thoughts
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