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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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alz @alz_zyd_

alz @alz_zyd_ · Jan 2 Replying to @alz_zyd_ Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x ... [1 reply, 1 retweet, 11 likes, 1.8K views] lumpenspace @lumpenspace anyway on the main topic id suggest: - Calvino: Why read the Classics? - Lawrence: The Bad Side of Books - Eco: the one on translation - Bloom: How to Read and why (if under 18) or The Western Canon 11:40 PM · Jan 3, 2025 · 792 Views [1 reply, 1 retweet, 7 likes, 4 bookmarks] Nurit Kostov @NuritNYC · Jan 4 The intro to The Westetn Cannon is a must. It is only 40-50 pages and it is highly persuasive.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Continuation of the lumpenspace reading-list thread (same thread as prior screenshot), with a tweet from @alz_zyd_ mentioning using ChatGPT to render Aristotle into readable English — a small, offhand data point on casual LLM use for classic-text comprehension. Mostly general literary culture, minimal AI-safety relevance.

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lumps @lumpenspace

uh and while I'm here apart from Kristeva: - transactional analysis ("games ppl play" is a useful intro) - Keith Johnston on improv - Peter Carroll on Sigils - Peirce - the way Roland Barthes talks about text for instance in S/Z - pragmatics ... all offer lenses on this thing 7:11 AM · May 7, 2025 · 354 Views [reply/retweet/like/bookmark/share icons: 1, 1, 4, 1] lumpenspace @lumpenspace · 2h related > QUOTED: lumpenspace @lumpenspace · Jan 3 > Replying to @lumpenspace > relatedly, I had long suspected Shannon to be wrong, and English to be only redundant for the lowest common denominator; "pidginisation", rather... [text cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A reading-list style tweet from @lumpenspace listing intellectual lenses (transactional analysis, improv theory, chaos magic sigils, semiotics, pragmatics) for understanding an unspecified "this thing" — likely language/meaning-making, tied to a linked older tweet about Shannon information theory and pidginization. General intellectual-culture reading, no direct AI safety content.

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