I’m looking for a science fiction novel that I believe I first saw mentioned on LessWrong. I don’t remember the author, the title, or any of the characters’ names. It’s about a robot whose intelligence consists of five separate agents, serving different roles, which have to negotiate with each other for control of the body they inhabit and to communicate with humans. That’s about all I can remember.
While I’m here, if someone likes Ted Chiang and Greg Egan, who might they read for more of the same? “Non-space-opera rationalist SF that’s mainly about the ideas” would be the simplest characterisation. The person in question is not keen on “spaceship stories” like (in his opinion) Iain M. Banks, and was unimpressed by Cixin Liu’s “Three-Body Problem”. I’ve suggested HPMoR, of course, but I don’t think it took.
I like Bruce Sterling as an author that manages to explore ideas well. His book Distraction is well worth reading for a perspective of how a political system like the current US system might evolve.
Naming Osama Bin Ladin as an important powerplayer in Zeitgeist which was published in 2000, is illustrates his good geopolitical understanding.
The proganists however aren’t rational in the sense that HPMOR protagonists are rational.
I’m looking for a science fiction novel that I believe I first saw mentioned on LessWrong. I don’t remember the author, the title, or any of the characters’ names. It’s about a robot whose intelligence consists of five separate agents, serving different roles, which have to negotiate with each other for control of the body they inhabit and to communicate with humans. That’s about all I can remember.
You may be thinking of Crystal Society? Best wishes, Less Wrong Reference Desk
Thanks.
While I’m here, if someone likes Ted Chiang and Greg Egan, who might they read for more of the same? “Non-space-opera rationalist SF that’s mainly about the ideas” would be the simplest characterisation. The person in question is not keen on “spaceship stories” like (in his opinion) Iain M. Banks, and was unimpressed by Cixin Liu’s “Three-Body Problem”. I’ve suggested HPMoR, of course, but I don’t think it took.
I like Bruce Sterling as an author that manages to explore ideas well. His book Distraction is well worth reading for a perspective of how a political system like the current US system might evolve.
Naming Osama Bin Ladin as an important powerplayer in Zeitgeist which was published in 2000, is illustrates his good geopolitical understanding.
The proganists however aren’t rational in the sense that HPMOR protagonists are rational.