I certainly believe he could. After reading Tamsin Leake’s “everything is okay” (click the link if you dare), I felt a little unstable, and felt like I had to expend deliberate effort to not think about the described world in sufficient detail in order to protect my sanity. I felt like I was reading something that had been maximized by a semi-powerful AI to be moving, almost infohazardously moving, but not quite; that this approached the upper bound of what humans could read while still accepting the imperfection of their current conditions.
Have you ever driven your readers insane? If yes, I’d like to hear that story. And are we talking “mildly unsettled” or “get a straitjacket”?
I think that’s almost certainly true. But if you did hear the story, would you wish you hadn’t?
I certainly believe he could. After reading Tamsin Leake’s “everything is okay” (click the link if you dare), I felt a little unstable, and felt like I had to expend deliberate effort to not think about the described world in sufficient detail in order to protect my sanity. I felt like I was reading something that had been maximized by a semi-powerful AI to be moving, almost infohazardously moving, but not quite; that this approached the upper bound of what humans could read while still accepting the imperfection of their current conditions.