One way to say it is that I expect to still remember the story in five years time, and I appreciate stories with that property. I also expect to get different things out of it every couple years if I reread it, which is a measure of “writing quality” in my book.
But to try to be more specific:
I just wrote, while trying to talk about something unrelated to this story: “Many people today, especially high-level people in the bay area, seem to me sort of… abstract, dissociated, cobbled-together-on-purpose-via-conscious-understanding-of-algorithms compared to the people in older books and movies. I’d like more of the normal/historical human thing.” This… is a perception that’s been with me for awhile, but the story helped it click into slightly-better focus.
Also (not that central to what I liked about the story, but an example): at least two different people who’re in some way pushing AI development have told me privately about weird choices they made when hitting puberty, about how to set up their insides. I’m curious how common things like this are, since probably most people wouldn’t tell me, and about how they work. This is the first public discussion of such that I’ve personally bumped into, and I appreciate it.
I agree reading the story was some sorts of unpleasant, and it left me feeling… perturbed for a couple days. But it helped that I felt like the author had sound moral bearings, which made it less disorienting for me that the characters didn’t?
One way to say it is that I expect to still remember the story in five years time, and I appreciate stories with that property. I also expect to get different things out of it every couple years if I reread it, which is a measure of “writing quality” in my book.
But to try to be more specific:
I just wrote, while trying to talk about something unrelated to this story: “Many people today, especially high-level people in the bay area, seem to me sort of… abstract, dissociated, cobbled-together-on-purpose-via-conscious-understanding-of-algorithms compared to the people in older books and movies. I’d like more of the normal/historical human thing.” This… is a perception that’s been with me for awhile, but the story helped it click into slightly-better focus.
Also (not that central to what I liked about the story, but an example): at least two different people who’re in some way pushing AI development have told me privately about weird choices they made when hitting puberty, about how to set up their insides. I’m curious how common things like this are, since probably most people wouldn’t tell me, and about how they work. This is the first public discussion of such that I’ve personally bumped into, and I appreciate it.
I agree reading the story was some sorts of unpleasant, and it left me feeling… perturbed for a couple days. But it helped that I felt like the author had sound moral bearings, which made it less disorienting for me that the characters didn’t?