LessWrong (Curated & Popular)

"The Redaction Machine" by Ben


Listen Later

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CKgPFHoWFkviYz7CB/the-redaction-machine

On the 3rd of October 2351 a machine flared to life. Huge energies coursed into it via cables, only to leave moments later as heat dumped unwanted into its radiators. With an enormous puff the machine unleashed sixty years of human metabolic entropy into superheated steam.

In the heart of the machine was Jane, a person of the early 21st century.

From her perspective there was no transition. One moment she had been in the year 2021, sat beneath a tree in a park. Reading a detective novel.

Then the book was gone, and the tree. Also the park. Even the year.

She found herself laid in a bathtub, immersed in sickly fatty fluids. She was naked and cold.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)By LessWrong

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

12 ratings


More shows like LessWrong (Curated & Popular)

View all
Macro Voices by Hedge Fund Manager Erik Townsend

Macro Voices

3,072 Listeners

Odd Lots by Bloomberg

Odd Lots

1,932 Listeners

EconTalk by Russ Roberts

EconTalk

4,264 Listeners

Conversations with Tyler by Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Conversations with Tyler

2,455 Listeners

Philosophy Bites by Edmonds and Warburton

Philosophy Bites

1,547 Listeners

ChinaTalk by Jordan Schneider

ChinaTalk

288 Listeners

ManifoldOne by Steve Hsu

ManifoldOne

95 Listeners

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

96 Listeners

Dwarkesh Podcast by Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Podcast

519 Listeners

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg by Spencer Greenberg

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

138 Listeners

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning by Razib Khan

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

209 Listeners

"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg by Turpentine

"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg

151 Listeners

Money Stuff: The Podcast by Bloomberg

Money Stuff: The Podcast

393 Listeners

Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) by Patrick McKenzie

Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

134 Listeners

The Marginal Revolution Podcast by Mercatus Center at George Mason University

The Marginal Revolution Podcast

96 Listeners