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Nathan @NathanpmYoung

``` Nathan 🔍 @NathanpmYoung · 1h: "There name of the wind." [reply 0, like 3, views 68] Anders Sandb... @anderssandb... · 4m: "Olaf Stapledon's Starmaker." [like 1, views 10] Stanislav Fort @stanislavfort · 2h: "Accelerando by Charles Stross, Diaspora by Greg Egan, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges" [reply 2, like 7, views 269] Jhosé does the Jhanas... @Art... · 2h: "Favourite is a hard one! Some I liked: that came to mind are No Antimemetics Division, Mistborn, and Project Hail Mary" [like 6, views 168] eigenspectra @eigen_spectra · 6m: "Ra by qntm is about a world where magic is real, but it's basically a postgraduate physics degree and most people don't bother to learn it. It's a good book. qntm also wrote There is No Antimemetics Division which has been recommended before. Also blindsight by peter watts" [views 7] status effects @status_effects · 2h: "if you want something contemporary, the..." [cut off] ——— status effects @status_effects · 2h: "if you want something contemporary, the new sally rooney book (intermezzo) i found gripping. separately, was on a big george saunders short story kick, can't recommend enough" [like 1, views 51] Larissa Schiavo @lfschiavo · 1h: "Crying of Lot 49 (a little story, a weird story, a California story)" [like 2, views 78] henry @hdevalence · 2h: "when we cease to understand the world by benjamin labatut" [like 1, views 120] sydney @demiurgently · 1m: "book of the new sun!" ```
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A reply thread of favorite science fiction book recommendations (Accelerando, Diaspora, Ficciones, Mistborn, Project Hail Mary, Ra, There Is No Antimemetics Division, Blindsight, Starmaker, Name of the Wind). Notably includes Nathan (@NathanpmYoung, likely a different Nathan, an EA/forecasting-adjacent figure) and Stanislav Fort (interpretability researcher) among repliers. Cultural/literary interest list; several titles (Blindsight, Ra, Antimemetics Division) deal with consciousness/cognition themes relevant to Nathan Helm-Burger's interests, but the tweet itself is just a reading-list thread. Continuation of the same book-recommendation reply thread (Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, George Saunders, Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49, Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun). Purely a literary reading-list thread, no substantive AI safety/welfare content.

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