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I'm what used to be called a machine learning engineer, originally from London (the English one), living in the SF Bay Area for the past 20 years. Likes left-wing politics and long walks on the beach (I guess). In a past life, I've been a climate scientist and I self-identify as a Bayesian. I'm an active member of the DSA. ifl books. I will always like pictures of nature; especially birds, but also the weird and wonderful and unsung. Nature is the best.
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I'm what used to be called a machine learning engineer, originally from London (the English one), living in the SF Bay Area for the past 20 years. Likes left-wing politics and long walks on the beach (I guess). In a past life, I've been a climate scientist and I self-identify as a Bayesian. I'm an active member of the DSA. ifl books. I will always like pictures of nature; especially birds, but also the weird and wonderful and unsung. Nature is the best.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win The central theme of this book, I'm now sure, is all about secrets and the issues that arise from keeping them or revealing them -- everyone in the book has secrets: they're spies, have hidden agendas, etc.
The theme is then split into two contrasting storylines: the humans are mostly concerned with sex and personal intrigues and the storyline shows the consequences of secrets to them. Lives are ruined, relationships are broken. The Minds, on the other hand, are concerned with the Excession or with the atrocities of the Affront and the consequences of that is the ruin of civilizations or perhaps the destruction of the entire universe: gigadeathcrimes. Note how the humans are only superficially concerned with the Excession and the war, the Minds are only secondarily concerned with the lives of humans.
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